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Title

Fiber optic smart structures / edited by Eric Udd.

Publication

New York : Wiley, [1995], ©1995.

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Additional Authors

Udd, Eric.

Description

xii, 671 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.

Summary

• Recent earthquakes and space program-related news serve as potent reminders of the uses fiber optic technology offers to an increasingly complex world. Like living organisms sensitive to subtle changes in the environment, buildings, structures, and space vehicles can be equipped to sense and react to their surroundings by means of hair-thin glass fiber sensors embedded in structural materials and capable of carrying information and measuring changes in stress and other environmental factors.
• Data is collected and transmitted to a central location, where the findings are assessed and damage corrected.
• Fiber Optic Smart Structures pools the expertise of thirty-three leading professionals, many of whom are pioneers in the field, and offers a comprehensive introduction to this fast growing technology.
• Beginning with a historical overview and a look at the background technology, the book goes on to discuss methods of embedding optical fibers in modern high-strength, lightweight composite materials; ingress and egress of optical fibers; and more specialized application concerns, including use of the Fabry-Perot interferometer and Bragg grating sensors.
• Lower cost options are considered in light of performance trade-offs, and broad area coverage through single-line stringing of multiple fiber sensors is compared with single and distributed sensor approaches.
• The last section of the book treats the use of fiber optic smart structures in a wide range of settings. Discussions include applications in environments where high temperature and ultrasonic waves play a role; in the aerospace industry, where changes in the structural integrity of the system demand real-time automatic changes; and a rapidly emerging new direction, earthquake-resistant buildings and, along similar lines, bridges that perform self-diagnostics.

Series Statement

Wiley series in pure and applied optics

Uniform Title

Wiley series in pure and applied optics.

Subjects

• Optical fiber detectors
• Smart structures
• Composite materials

Note

• "A Wiley-Interscience publication."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Ch. 1. The Evolution of Fiber Optic Smart Structures / Eric Udd -- Ch. 2. Fiber Optic Smart Structure Technology / Eric Udd -- Ch. 3. Introduction to Advanced Composite Materials / Jorn S. Hansen -- Ch. 4. Optical Fiber/Composite Interaction Mechanics / James S. Sirkis and Abhijit Dasgupta -- Ch. 5. Integrity of Composite Structures with Embedded Optical Fibers / David W. Jensen and James S. Sirkis -- Ch. 6. Methods of Fiber Optic Ingress/Egress for Smart Structures / William B. Spillman, Jr. and Jeffery R. Lord -- Ch. 7. Fiber Optic Sensor Overview / Eric Udd -- Ch. 8. Fiber Optic Strain Sensing / Raymond M. Measures -- Ch. 9. Sensors for Smart Structures Based on the Fabry-Perot Interferometer / Chung E. Lee and Henry F. Taylor -- Ch. 10. Optical Fiber Bragg Grating Sensors: A Candidate for Smart Structure Applications / Jim R. Dunphy, Gerald Meltz and William W. Morey -- Ch. 11. Elliptical-Core Two-Mode Optical Fiber Sensors / Kent A. Murphy, Ashish M. Vengsarkar and Richard O. Claus.
• Ch. 12. Microbend Fiber Optic Sensors / Tim Clark and Herb Smith -- Ch. 13. Fluorescence Optrode Sensors for Composite Processing Control and Smart Structure Applications / Ram L. Levy and Scott D. Schwab -- Ch. 14. Distributed Optical Fiber Sensors / John P. Dakin -- Ch. 15. Fiber Optic Sensor Multiplexing Techniques / Alan D. Kersey -- Ch. 16. Neural Network Processing for Fiber Optic Sensors and Smart Systems / Barry G. Grossman and Michael H. Thursby -- Ch. 17. Actuators for Smart Structures / Zaffir Chaudhry and Craig Rogers -- Ch. 18. High-Temperature Optical Fiber Sensors / Richard O. Claus, Kent A. Murphy, Anbo Wang and Russell G. May -- Ch. 19. Interferometric Optical Fiber Sensors for Ultrasonic Wave Measurement / Richard O. Claus, V. S. Sudarshanam and Kent A. Murphy -- Ch. 20. Fiber Optic Damage Assessment / Michel Le Blanc and Raymond M. Measures -- Ch. 21. Fiber Optic Smart Structures for Aircraft / Herb Smith -- Ch. 22. Control of Smart Space Structures / Andrew S. Bicos.
• Ch. 23. Fiber Optic Smart Civil Structures / Dryver R. Huston and Peter L. Fuhr.

ISBN

0471554480 (cloth)

LCCN

93037681

OCLC

• 29031083
• ocm29031083

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries