Fibre optic sensors for structural health monitoring of aircraft composite structures: Recent advances and applications

R Di Sante - Sensors, 2015 - mdpi.com
In-service structural health monitoring of composite aircraft structures plays a key role in the
assessment of their performance and integrity. In recent years, Fibre Optic Sensors (FOS) …

Recent developments in fibre optic shape sensing

M Amanzadeh, SM Aminossadati, MS Kizil, AD Rakić - Measurement, 2018 - Elsevier
This paper presents a comprehensive critical review of technologies used in the
development of fibre optic shape sensors (FOSSs). Their operation is based on multi …

A smoothed iFEM approach for efficient shape-sensing applications: Numerical and experimental validation on composite structures

A Kefal, IE Tabrizi, M Yildiz, A Tessler - Mechanical Systems and Signal …, 2021 - Elsevier
A smoothed inverse finite element method (iFEM (s)) is developed by coupling the inverse
finite element method (iFEM) and the smoothing element analysis (SEA) for real-time …

Development of the Senseiver for efficient field reconstruction from sparse observations

JE Santos, ZR Fox, A Mohan, D O'Malley… - Nature Machine …, 2023 - nature.com
The reconstruction of complex time-evolving fields from sensor observations is a grand
challenge. Frequently, sensors have extremely sparse coverage and low-resource …

Shape sensing methods: Review and experimental comparison on a wing-shaped plate

M Gherlone, P Cerracchio, M Mattone - Progress in Aerospace Sciences, 2018 - Elsevier
Shape sensing, ie, the reconstruction of the displacement field of a structure from some
discrete surface strain measurements, is a fundamental capability for the structural health …

[HTML][HTML] A quadrilateral inverse-shell element with drilling degrees of freedom for shape sensing and structural health monitoring

A Kefal, E Oterkus, A Tessler, JL Spangler - Engineering science and …, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract The inverse Finite Element Method (iFEM) is a state-of-the-art methodology
originally introduced by Tessler and Spangler for real-time reconstruction of full-field …

Structural damage identification using strain mode differences by the iFEM based on the convolutional neural network (CNN)

M Li, D Jia, Z Wu, S Qiu, W He - Mechanical Systems and Signal …, 2022 - Elsevier
Structural damage identification is the key problem of structural health monitoring (SHM),
which has been widely used in many fields. Traditional damage detection methods usually …

Fiber Bragg gratings sensors for aircraft wing shape measurement: Recent applications and technical analysis

Z Ma, X Chen - Sensors, 2018 - mdpi.com
The safety monitoring and tracking of aircraft is becoming more and more important. Under
aerodynamic loading, the aircraft wing will produce large bending and torsional deformation …

An efficient curved inverse-shell element for shape sensing and structural health monitoring of cylindrical marine structures

A Kefal - Ocean Engineering, 2019 - Elsevier
Known as “shape sensing”, real-time reconstruction of a structure's three-dimensional
displacements using a network of in situ strain sensors and measured strains is a vital …

Coupling of peridynamics and inverse finite element method for shape sensing and crack propagation monitoring of plate structures

A Kefal, C Diyaroglu, M Yildiz, E Oterkus - Computer Methods in Applied …, 2022 - Elsevier
A novel structural health monitoring approach is developed by coupling the inverse finite
element method (iFEM) and peridynamic theory (PD) for real-time shape sensing analysis …