Structural engineers have long imagined the day when materials used in an aircraft, a wind turbine blade or a bridge could sense if they had been strained to the point of damage, reducing their ...

Anglo-Italian safety equipment specialist Aero Sekur (H4/B8) has developed a structural health monitoring system for composite airframes and components, which should overcome weaknesses of existing ...

SMARTFIBER concept of SHM system using Fiber Bragg Grating sensors embedded into a composite tidal turbine blade. SOURCE: SMARTFIBER project. Structural health monitoring (SHM) is an emerging ...

UTC Aerospace Systems, a unit of United Technologies Corp. (NYSE: UTX), has licensed the MD7-Pro™ digital structural health monitoring (SHM) system from Metis Design Corporation to support the ...

Stephen Neidigk (left), Dennis Roach (center) and Tom Rice of Sandia National Laboratories set up a comparative vacuum monitoring SHM system to allow for remote visual inspection of aircraft ...