Polymer optical fibers (POFs) have significant advantages for many sensing applications,
including high elastic strain limits, high fracture toughness, high flexibility in bending, high …

The recent advances of polymer technology allowed the introduction of plastic optical fiber in
sensor design. The advantages of optical metrology with plastic optical fiber have attracted …

Aircraft structures require periodic and scheduled inspection and maintenance operations
due to their special operating conditions and the principles of design employed to develop …

Self-monitoring materials have promising applications in structural health monitoring.
However, developing organic afterglow materials for self-monitoring is a highly intriguing yet …

Optical fibre sensors are an essential subset of optical fibre technology, designed
specifically for sensing and measuring several physical parameters. These sensors offer …

Introduction of composites for aircraft fabrication has given the opportunity to all researchers
and original equipment manufacturers to design a lightweight structure that will reduce both …

Currently, structures are examined during manufacturing by means of Non Destructive Tests
(NDT), but there is an increasing interest in monitoring its integrity over its whole life cycle by …

This paper proposes a new damage index named degree of health (DoH) to efficiently tackle
structural damage monitoring in real-time. As a key contribution, the proposed index relies …

Fibre-optic Bragg grating (FBG) sensors have been recognised as one of the smart localised
and globalised structural health monitoring devices for many structural applications. A …

Fatigue failure is the main type of failure that occurs in gas turbine engine blades and an
online monitoring method for detecting fatigue cracks in blades is urgently needed …