Affiliation:
1. Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Politecnico di Torino, 10129 Turin, Italy
Abstract
In this work, the strains measured with optic fibers and recorded during tensile tests performed on carbon/epoxy composite specimens were compared to those recorded by strain gauges and by Digital Image Correlation (DIC). The work aims at investigating the sensitivity of embedded and glued optic sensors for structural health monitoring applications in comparison with strain gauges and the full field strain map of the DIC. Acrylate, polyimide optic fibers, and three strain gauge sizes are considered to compare the three techniques. Results show hard polyimide-coated sensors are more sensitive to the material pattern than soft acrylate-coated fibers, which also require extensive adhesion length. The work shows a comparable size of strain gauges and material meso-structure is also critical for properly assessing material properties. The Young’s modulus computed with the three different techniques is used to define a strategy that supports the selection and the proper size of the adopted strain measuring system for structural health monitoring of composite materials.
Subject
Electrical and Electronic Engineering,Biochemistry,Instrumentation,Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics,Analytical Chemistry
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