Structural Health Monitoring of Cracked Aircraft Panels Repaired with Bonded Patches Using Fiber Bragg Grating Sensors

摘要

Structural health monitoring of cracked aircraft panels repaired with bonded patches for extending the service life of aging aircraft has received wide attention. In this paper, the identification of the locations and shapes of fatigue crack and disbond fronts in aircraft panels repaired with double-sided bonded patches using fiber Bragg grating (FBG) sensors is studied. The identification is performed by minimizing the difference between the detected and calculated reflection spectra of FBG sensors at multiple positions on the free surface of patches. The validity and effectiveness of the identification in practical use is verified by comparing the identification results with the exact ones.