Structural Health Monitoring of Composite Structures Using Fiber Optic Methods Devices, Circuits, and Systems Series

This highly comprehensive, introductory book explains the basics of structural health monitoring aspects of composite structures. This book serve as an all-in-one reference book in which the reader can receive a basic understanding of composite materials, manufacturing methods, the latest types of optical fiber sensors used for structural health monitoring of composite structures, and demonstrated applications of the use of fiber sensors in a variety of composite material structures. The content draws upon the authors? and distinguished contributors? extensive research/teaching and industrial experience to fully cover the structural health monitoring of composite materials using fiber optic sensing methods.

Composite Materials and Structures. Introduction to Composite Materials. Fabrication Methods of Advanced Composite Structures. Industrial Applications of Composite Materials. Structural Health Monitoring of Composite Materials and Structures: Requirements and Industry Standards. Fiber Optic Sensors for Composite Material Structures. Introduction to Fiber Optic Sensors. Fiber Optic Sensors for Composite Structures: Challenges and Requirements. Structural Health Monitoring of Composite Structures using Fiber Optic Polarimetric Sensors; Composite Materials Structural Health Monitoring using Fiber Bragg Gratings; Structural Health Monitoring of Composite Materials using Distributed Fiber Optic Sensors. Fiber Optic Acoustic Sensors and its Applications in SHM of Composite Materials. Composite Materials with Embedded Micro-Structured Fiber Sensors. Smaller Diameter Optical Fiber Sensors for Automated Composite Structure Manufacturing. Demonstrated Applications of Smart Composite Structures. Optical Fiber Sensing for Aerospace Composite Structures. Structural Health Monitoring of Wind Turbine Blades Using Fiber Optic Methods. Fiber Optic Structural Health Monitoring Systems for Marine Composite Structures. Civil Engineering Applications of Smart Composite Structures; Shape Adaptive Smart Composite Structures.

Ginu Rajan is a vice-chancellor’s research fellow/lecturer at the University of Wollongong, Australia; he is also a visiting fellow at the University of New South Wales, Australia. He received his BSc degree in Physics from the University of Kerala and MSc degree in Applied Physics from Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala, India, in 2000 and 2002, respectively. He worked as a researcher at the Indian Institute of Astrophysics during the period 2003–2005. He subsequently undertook research in the area of optical fiber sensors, in which he gained a PhD from Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland, in 2009. During 2009–2012, Dr. Rajan worked as a project manager at the Photonics Research Centre of Dublin Institute of Technology in collaboration with the Warsaw University of Technology, Poland, and from 2012–2014 as a research fellow/lecturer at the University of New South Wales. He has published over 120 articles in journals, at conferences, and as book chapters, and two patents are also granted to him. He has also given invited talks at conferences and is a technical program committee member of several conferences in the smart structures and photonics area. Dr. Rajan is currently a reviewer for more than 23 scientific journals and also a reviewer for grant applications of the Portugal Science Foundation and Australian Research Council. He is the editor of the book Optical Fiber Sensors: Advanced Techniques and Applications and also an editorial board member of the Scientific World Journal. His research and teaching interest includes optical fiber sensors and their applications in biomedical engineering, fiber Bragg grating interrogation systems, photonic crystal fiber sensors, polymer fiber sensors, smart structures, and physics of photonic devices. He can be reached at ginu@uow.edu.au or ginurajan@gmail.com.

B. Gangadhara Prusty is a professor for the University of New South Wales Mechanical and Manufa