Structural Health Monitoring of Composite Structures Using Fiber Optic Methods

Chapter 1. Introduction to composite materials and smart structures / B. Gangadhara Prusty, Ebrahim Oromiehie, and GInu Rajan -- Chapter 2. Structural health monitoring methods for composite materials / Wiesaw M. Ostachowicz, Tomasz Wandowski, and Pawel H. Malinowski -- Chapter 3. Introduction to optical fiber sensors / Dipankar Sengupta and Ginu Rajan -- Chapter 4. Structural health monitoring of composite materials using fiber bragg gratings / Christophe Caucheteur and 7 others -- Chapter 5. Structural health monitoring of composite materials using distributed fiber-optic sensors / Hideaki Murayama -- Chapter 6. Importance of strain transfer effects for embedded multiaxial strain sensing and optical fiber coating optimization / Nicolas Lammens and 6 others -- Chapter 7. Monitoring process parameters using optical fiber sensors in composite production / Edmon Chehura -- Chapter 8. FBG-based structural performance monitoring and safety evaluation of a composite arch bridge / Xiao-Wei Ye, Tan Liu, Chuan-Zhi Dong, and Bin Chen -- Chapter 9. Smart composite textiles with embedded optical fibers / Tamer Hamouda and Abdel-Fattah M. Seyam -- Chapter 10. Smart aerospace composite structures / Gayan Kahandawa and Jayantha Ananda Epaarachchi -- Chapter 11. Advances in FRP-based smart components and structures / Zhi Zhou, Yung William Sasy Chan, and Jinping Ou -- Chapter 12. Fiber-optic structural health monitoring systems for marine composite structures / Raju and B. Gangadhara Prusty.