Strain monitoring of a composite wing

Joseph Strathman; Steve E. Watkins; Amardeep Kaur; David C. Macke Jr.

doi:10.1117/12.2219363

20 April 2016 Strain monitoring of a composite wing

Joseph Strathman, Steve E. Watkins, Amardeep Kaur, David C. Macke Jr.

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Proceedings Volume 9803, Sensors and Smart Structures Technologies for Civil, Mechanical, and Aerospace Systems 2016; 980346 (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2219363
Event: SPIE Smart Structures and Materials + Nondestructive Evaluation and Health Monitoring, 2016, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States

Abstract

An instrumented composite wing is described. The wing is designed to meet the load and ruggedness requirements for a fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) in search-and-rescue applications. The UAV supports educational systems development and has a 2.1-m wingspan. The wing structure consists of a foam core covered by a carbon-fiber, laminate composite shell. To quantify the wing characteristics, a fiber-optic strain sensor was surface mounted to measure distributed strain. This sensor is based on Rayleigh scattering from local index variations and it is capable of high spatial resolution. The use of the Rayleigh-scattering fiber-optic sensors for distributed measurements is discussed.

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Joseph Strathman, Steve E. Watkins, Amardeep Kaur, and David C. Macke Jr. "Strain monitoring of a composite wing", Proc. SPIE 9803, Sensors and Smart Structures Technologies for Civil, Mechanical, and Aerospace Systems 2016, 980346 (20 April 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2219363

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