We’re All Getting Older: Accelerated Lifecycle and Fatigue Testing
Shrinking military budgets often necessitate the use of vehicles and aircraft well beyond their service lives. For example, according to STARS and STRIPES, among the Navy’s concerns is a rapidly…
New Affordable Distributed Fiber Optic Sensing Platform Now available
Distributed fiber optic sensing has traditionally been a steep entry price technology to get behind. It has been a common issue for many years that has led many engineers to…
Fatigue – A clear advantage of Fiber Optics Sensing over Strain Gauges
One widespread application where FOS technology exhibits superior performance over foil strain gauges is in the fatigue testing of components, sub-assemblies, and full-scale structures. Demand for full-scale fatigue testing continues…
Sensor density of strain gauges vs fiber optics sensing
Due to the time and resource intensive installation process, traditional electrical strain gauges are often deployed in limited numbers. Because of budgetary or schedule constraints, engineers are often forced to…
Fiber Optics Sensing vs. Strain Gauges – Installation Effort/Complexity
Any experienced experimental stress analysis engineer would agree that the quality of a strain gauge installation greatly influences the accuracy of the measurement. Simply put, a strain gauge can only…
