Functional Fiber Materials for Aeronautical and Aerospace Applications
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Smart Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 10 June 2024 | Viewed by 3224
Special Issue Editor
Interests: photonics; optics for aerospace; optical sensors; optical devices; machine learning for optics
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Dear Colleagues,
As is well known, the increased use of composite structures in the aeronautical industry in recent decades, with newer aircraft made largely of composite material, produced many new fruitful contributions to the progress of the structural health monitoring (SHM) area for composite aeronautical and aerospace structures. Applying SHM in the aeronautical and aerospace industries has not yet fully matured, and particularly their applications to composite structures are challenging. A realistic aircraft maintenance scenario, such requires a full damage diagnostic on all four SHM levels, meaning damage detection, damage localization, damage type identification and damage severity. Presently the scientific, industrial, and end-user communities generally view optical sensors and smart materials as technologies with the highest potential for continuous real-time monitoring of aircraft structures and, finally, tracking some critical biochemical parameters and also destructive contaminants.
Optical sensors, which can include optical fiber-based sensors, have also found applications in feeding back real-time measurements of weight distribution, reliable aviation fuel gauging sensors or even water content detection and online monitoring in aviation fuel. Further to this, the distributed optical sensors are able to test the structural integrity of the wings and fuselage (following the four SHM levels mentioned) as well as judge the performance of the engines, icing on the wings, loading on the landing gear, and importantly, the cockpit environment (not only in commercial aircraft but also military ones). In this way, with the continuous development of autopilot systems and flight assistance systems, pilot performance and air safety from the cockpits (temperature, humidity, pressure, and also detecting biological contaminants aboard aircraft, for example) needs to be improved significantly. The pilot behavior recognition based on multi-modality fusion technology using physiological features acquired online as well as critical parameters.
The link between optical fiber sensors and smart materials technologies is very important for such a topic more than ever.
In this Special Issue, it is my pleasure to invite you to submit manuscripts related to this critical topic. Full papers, communications, and reviews are all welcome.
You may choose our Joint Special Issue in Sensors.
Dr. Carlos Marques
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- smart sensing
- aeronautical
- optical fiber technology
- safety
- aero-biosensors
