Fibre reinforced polymers (FRPs) are an important group of materials in lightweight
constructions. Most of the parts produced from FRPs, like aircraft wings or wind turbine rotor …

A fiber-optic intrinsic distributed acoustic emission (AE) sensor is proposed. By measuring
the time delay of two signals from two Mach-Zehnder interferometers, the location of AE can …

This paper introduces a novel technique for embedding aligned sheets of two millimeters
long, interconnected CNTs into the interlaminar region of composite structures. The potential …

Carbon fibres have become the natural choice as reinforcements for polymer composite
materials (PMCs). The non-destructive inspection of dry carbon fibre preforms has the …

Failure Analysis (FA) is indispensable for any reliability analysis, being used, among other
things, for epoxy/rubber blend materials and for the encapsulated electronic components …

Featured Application Damage assessment of a reinforced concrete (RC) by means of
different nondestructive testing (NDT) techniques. Joined application of a PZT sensor …

Polyvinyl alcohol–carbon nanotube (PVA–CNT) fibers were embedded in glass fiber
reinforced plastic composites and used as strain sensors for damage monitoring of the …

Fiberoptic Bragg grating sensors were embedded in composite structures in order to be
used as the detection system for structural health monitoring purposes. Firstly, optical fibers …

Due to the difficulties associated with performing compression tests and the complex nature
of compression failure, the number of studies that have examined the piezoresistive …

Increased interest in thermo-electro-elastic during the last decades can be assigned to the
fact that the study of thermo-electro-elastic mechanical coupled behavior in smart structure …