Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) Using Strain Gauges, PVDF Film and Fiber Bragg Grating (FBG) Sensors: A Comparative Study

Rao, Baskar M and Murthy, CRL and Bhat, MR and Asokan, S and Madhav, Venu K (2006) Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) Using Strain Gauges, PVDF Film and Fiber Bragg Grating (FBG) Sensors: A Comparative Study. In: Proc. National Seminar on Non-Destructive Evaluation, Dec 7-9 2006, Hyderabad.

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Abstract

The term Structural Health Monitoring has gained wide acceptance in the recent pastas a means to monitor a structure and provide an early warning of an unsafe conditionusing real-time data. Utilization of structurally integrated, distributed sensors tomonitor the health of a structure through accurate interpretation of sensor signals andreal-time data processing can greatly reduce the inspection burden. The rapidimprovement of the Fiber Bragg Grating sensor technology for strain, vibration andacoustic emission measurements in recent times make them a feasible alternatives tothe traditional strain gauges transducers and conventional Piezoelectric sensors usedfor Non Destructive Evaluation (NDE) and Structural Health Monitoring (SHM).Optical fiber-based sensors offers advantages over conventional strain gauges, PVDFfilm and PZT devices in terms of size, ease of embedment, immunity fromelectromagnetic interference(EMI) and potential for multiplexing a number ofsensors. The objective of this paper is to demonstrate the feasibility of Fiber BraggGrating sensor and compare its utility with the conventional strain gauges and PVDFfilm sensors. For this purpose experiments are being carried out in the laboratory on acomposite wing of a mini air vehicle (MAV). In this paper, the results obtained fromthese preliminary experiments are discussed.

Item Type:	Conference Paper
Publisher:	Taylor and Francis Group
Additional Information:	Copyright of this article belongs to Taylor and Francis Group.
Department/Centre:	Division of Mechanical Sciences > Aerospace Engineering(Formerly Aeronautical Engineering)
Date Deposited:	07 Dec 2011 05:36
Last Modified:	07 Dec 2011 05:36
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/42219

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