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Structural Health Monitoring of an Advanced Grid Structure with Embedded Fiber Bragg Grating Sensors

Department of Advanced Energy, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences The University of Tokyo, Takeda Laboratory, Mailbox 311, 5-1-5, Kashiwanoha Kashiwa-City, Chiba, Japan, 277-8561, masa{at}smart.k.u-tokyo.ac.jp

Yoji Okabe

Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, School of Engineering The University of Tokyo, Takeda Laboratory, Mailbox 311, 5-1-5, Kashiwanoha Kashiwa-City, Chiba, Japan, 277-8561

Nobuo Takeda

Department of Advanced Energy, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences The University of Tokyo, Takeda Laboratory, Mailbox 311, 5-1-5, Kashiwanoha Kashiwa-City, Chiba, Japan, 277-8561

Tsuyoshi Ozaki

Department of Metal & Ceramics Technology, Advanced Technology R&D Center, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, 1-1-57, Miyashimo, Sagamihara-City Kanagawa, Japan, 229-1195

The authors focus on the construction of a structural health monitoring (SHM) system with an advanced grid structure (AGS) made of carbon-fiber reinforced plastic (CFRP). AGS is often applied to aerospace structures because the ribs carry only axial forces in the carbon fiber direction, making AGS structurally effective and lightweight, and because the repetition of many ribs in the AGS composition results in damage tolerance. The failure of a single rib hardly affects the fracture of the whole structure, making AGS a fail-safe structure. In this research, the authors have embedded multiplexed-fiber Bragg grating (FBG) sensors into an AGS rib in the longitudinal direction to measure mechanical strains of all ribs in order to detect the existence and regions of AGS rib fractures. Monitoring the change in rib-longitudinal strains is the most effective SHM system for AGS. To confirm the proposal, the authors explore the following. First, various damage characteristics under low-velocity impact loading are investigated and it is verified that partial rib cracks are the most typical damage in AGS. An AGS is then fabricated with embedded FBG sensors and verified that the SHM system is able to measure all rib strains. Subsequently, it is analytically determined that the change in longitudinal-rib strains is the most appropriate mechanical feature for damage detection. Moreover, a statistical outlier analysis is introduced into the SHM system for automatic damage detection. Finally, AGS is established with the SHM system and verified experimentally. Results confirm that the existence of damage and its regions in AGS can be detected with the proposed SHM system.

Key Words: advanced grid structure (AGS) • damage detection • fiber Bragg grating (FBG) sensor • impact rib fracture • finite element analysis (FEA) • statistical outlier analysis

Structural Health Monitoring, Vol. 6, No. 4, 309-324 (2007)
DOI: 10.1177/1475921707081967


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