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Fiber Optic Smart Structures

Fiber Optic Smart Structures


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Recent earthquakes and space program-related news serve as potentreminders of the uses fiber optic technology offers to anincreasingly complex world. Like living organisms sensitive tosubtle changes in the environment, buildings, structures, and spacevehicles can be equipped to sense and react to their surroundingsby means of hair-thin glass fiber sensors embedded in structuralmaterials and capable of carrying information and measuring changesin stress and other environmental factors. Data is collected andtransmitted to a central location, where the findings are assessedand damage corrected.

Fiber Optic Smart Structures pools the expertise of thirty-threeleading professionals, many of whom are pioneers in the field, andoffers a comprehensive introduction to this fast growingtechnology. Beginning with a historical overview and a look at thebackground technology, the book goes on to discuss methods ofembedding optical fibers in modern high-strength, lightweightcomposite materials; ingress and egress of optical fibers; and morespecialized application concerns, including use of the Fabry-Perotinterferometer and Bragg grating sensors. Lower cost options areconsidered in light of performance trade-offs, and broad areacoverage through single-line stringing of multiple fiber sensors iscompared with single and distributed sensor approaches.

The last section of the book treats the use of fiber optic smartstructures in a wide range of settings. Discussions includeapplications in environments where high temperature and ultrasonicwaves play a role; in the aerospace industry, where changes in thestructural integrity of the system demand real-time automaticchanges; and a rapidly emerging new direction, earthquake-resistantbuildings and, along similar lines, bridges that performself-diagnostics.

The first and only comprehensive professional reference in thisimportant, emerging field, Fiber Optic Smart Structures is a majoraddition to the libraries of aerospace engineers, mechanicalscientists, fiber optics researchers and engineers, architects, andstructural engineers. It is also a first-rate graduate-leveltextbook.

The first and only comprehensive reference on this important andemerging field...

Fiber Optic Smart Structures is the ultimate resource forengineers, architects, researchers, and anyone with an interest inthis promising new technology. Thirty-three of the world's leadingprofessionals--many of them pioneers in the field--bring youcomprehensive coverage of every important aspect of fiber opticsmart structure technology, including its history and evolution, background technologies, structural and assembly issues, sensingdevices, and numerous applications.

Topics of particular interest include:
* An introduction to advanced composite materials associated withfiber optic smart structures
* Structural integrity of materials containing embedded opticalfibers
* Methods of fiber optic ingress and egress for smart structures
* Detailed descriptions of the most useful and promising fiberoptic sensors, including those based on the Fabry-Perotinterferometer and Bragg grating
* Extended discussions of applications, including the use of fiberoptic smart structures in high-temperature environments, qualitycontrol procedures, aircraft and space vehicles, earthquake-resistant buildings, and bridges that performself-diagnostics
* And much more
About the Author: About the editor

ERIC UDD is President of Blue Road Research, Inc., a company hefounded in 1993 to develop fiber optic sensor and smart materialsand structure technology. Prior to establishing Blue Road Research, he was Staff Senior Manager and McDonnell Douglas Fellow in theAdvanced Products and Technology Division of McDonnell DouglasAerospace. Mr. Udd has been responsible for fiber optic sensor andcommunication system design for a series of major research anddevelopment programs. While at McDonnell Douglas from 1977 to 1993, he acted as principal investigator and/or program manager on over20 Department of Defense, commercial and internal research anddevelopment efforts on fiber optic gyros, acoustic sensors andaccelerometers; seismic, strain, temperature and pressure sensors;as well as fiber optic communication systems and the area of fiberoptic smart structures. He has been involved in the area of fiberoptic smart structures since its inception and chaired the firstinternational conference in this area (Fiber Optic Smart Structuresand Skins, SPIE Proceedings, Volume 986, Boston, 1988). Mr. Udd hasapproximately 25 domestic and foreign patents issued or pending onfiber optic technology, has written and or presented over 50papers, and has chaired 17 conferences on fiber optic sensor andsmart structure technology. He is the editor of Fiber OpticSensors: An Introduction for Engineers and Scientists, alsoavailable from Wiley. Mr. Udd received his MSE in electro-opticsand applied physics from Princeton University in 1978.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780471554486
  • Publisher: Wiley-Interscience
  • Publisher Imprint: Wiley-Interscience
  • Height: 242 mm
  • No of Pages: 688
  • Series Title: Wiley Pure and Applied Optics
  • Weight: 1183 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0471554480
  • Publisher Date: 17 Apr 1995
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 37 mm
  • Width: 164 mm


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