Structural Health Monitoring Onboard Nasa's X-56A

Sensuron enables real-time structural health monitoring onboard X-56 NASA’s flexible wing aircraft

In contrast to the stiff, rigid wings found on most commercial aircraft, flexible wing technology is considered essential to next generation, fuel efficient aircraft. However, flexible wings are susceptible to “flutter,” or highly destructive aeroelastic instability. The Lockheed Martin X-56A multi-utility technology testbed (MUTT) unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) – a modular high-altitude, long-endurance (HALE) technology […]

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How Fiber Optic Sensing works – Let’s take a look under the hood

Pierrick Vulliez

New technologies can often be intimidating to implement for a number of reasons, but one of the most common hurdles is a lack of understanding how the technology works or how it can be applied. Fiber optic sensing (FOS) is such a technology, but it’s not that hard to understand the basics. A look inside

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Fiber optic sensing: The past, present, and exciting future

Pierrick Vulliez

Over the past 60 years, fiber optic sensing (FOS) has been used to enhance and test the integrity, efficiency, safety, and durability of structures, vehicles, medical devices, and more across a multitude of industries. Advancements over the past five years have enabled FOS to expand its abilities to include unprecedented levels of data and sensing

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Distributed Strain Sensing In Composites

What Lies Within…How Distributed Strain Sensing Plays a Role in Lifecycle Testing for Composites

Pierrick Vulliez

Composite materials are taking over the aerospace, automotive, marine, aviation, civil engineering and sports/leisure industries. And with good reason. Composites include materials which are usually stronger, lighter, or less expensive than traditional manufactured materials. They usually consist of a reinforcement (often a high-performance fiber such as carbon or glass) and a matrix (such as epoxy

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We’re All Getting Older: Accelerated Lifecycle and Fatigue Testing

Pierrick Vulliez

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 aging Ready Reserve Force of 46 transport ships, which each average 44 years of age. Similar problems face the Air Force. In 1980, the average

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$2 Trillion in US Infrastructure Repairs Will Spur Nondestructive Evaluation Initiatives

Pierrick Vulliez

Earlier this year, the White House agreed to spend up to $2 trillion to help fix our nation’s aging infrastructure. While the largest chunk will likely go to roads, bridges, and transit, there is also talk of improvements for wastewater, harbors, and airports, as well as a more efficient energy grid to transmit energy over

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Florida International University Bridge Collapses

FIU Bridge Collapse: The True Value of Structural Health Monitoring

Pierrick Vulliez

It’s been a year and a half since a pedestrian bridge collapsed at Florida International University in March of 2018, killing six people. Recently, OSHA came out with a 115-page report concluding that the tragedy could very well have been prevented. Just hours before the bridge collapsed, its design engineers inspected the deep structural cracks

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Distributed Strain and Temperature Sensing – A Thousand Points of Light

Pierrick Vulliez

Organizations that put a premium on safety and reliability have been using test and measurement solutions for years to validate structural integrity (strain), moderate temperature, and gain insight into places not visible with the human eye. Traditionally, strain and temperature were measured using electrical sensing technologies, such as foil (strain) gauges and electrical vibrating wire.

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Sensuron enables real-time structural health monitoring onboard X-56 NASA’s flexible wing aircraft

How Fiber Optic Sensing works – Let’s take a look under the hood

Fiber optic sensing: The past, present, and exciting future

What Lies Within…How Distributed Strain Sensing Plays a Role in Lifecycle Testing for Composites

We’re All Getting Older: Accelerated Lifecycle and Fatigue Testing

$2 Trillion in US Infrastructure Repairs Will Spur Nondestructive Evaluation Initiatives

FIU Bridge Collapse: The True Value of Structural Health Monitoring

Distributed Strain and Temperature Sensing – A Thousand Points of Light

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