Smart textile composites integrated with fibre optic sensors

Smart textile composites integrated with fibre optic sensors 

This chapter provides a review of various types of fibre optic sensors, major issues of smart textile composites integrated with fibre Bragg grating sensors, that is temperature and strain coupling, sensitivity, multiaxial strain measurement, measurement effectiveness and reliability issues, as well as various measurement systems for smart textile composites integrated with fibre optic sensors. 

Parallel with the rapid development in the area of optical fibre communications, fibre optical sensors have also attracted much attention and experienced a fast growth in the recent years. They are lightweight, small and flexible thus they will not affect the structure integrity of the composite materials and can 

1 Measurement by interferometric sensors with Mach-Zehnder interferometer. 

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Tao, X., 2001. Smart textile composites integrated with fibre optic sensors. In Xiaoming, T. (Ed.), Smart Fibres, Fabrics Clothing. Woodhead Publishing, Cambridge, pp. 174—199. 

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