Opto-Mechanical Fiber Optic Sensors: Research, Technology, and Applications in Mechanical Sensing

Opto-Mechanical Fiber Optic Sensors: Research, Technology, and Applications in Mechanical Sensing offers comprehensive coverage of the theoretical aspects of fiber optic sensors (FOS), along current and emerging applications in the mechanical, petroleum, biomedical, biomechanical, aerospace and automotive industries. Special attention is given to FOS applications in harsh environments. Due to recent technology advances, optical fibers have found uses in many industrial applications. Various sectors are major targets for FOS's capable of measuring mechanical parameters such as pressure, stress, strain and temperature. Opto-mechanical FOS's offer unique advantages unbeatable by other sensor systems, including immunity to electromagnetic interference, high fidelity and signal-to-noise ratio, low-loss remote sensing and small size. Provides current background information and fundamentals on fiber optic sensors technologyCovers a wide variety of established and emerging applications of FOS Focuses on mechanical parameter measurementIncludes contributions from leading researchers and practitioners in their fieldsCovers current methods of fabrication and packaging INDICE: 1. Fundamentals of Optical Fibers 2. Opto-Mechanical Fiber Optic Sensors 3. Fiber Bragg Grating Sensors and Methods of Manufacturing 4. FBG strain sensor for microstructure in-situ strain measurement and real-time failure detection 5. Distributed Brillouin Sensing Using Polymer Optical Fibers 6. Femto-second Laser Writing of Fiber Bragg Gratings 7. Innovations in Fiber Bragg Gratings for Mechanical Sensing 8. Optical Fiber Sensors in Oil and Gas Industry: Current Trends and Future Applications 9. Optical Fiber Sensors in Aerospace Industry: Current Trend and Future Applications 10. Fiber Optical Sensors in Biomechanics 11. Fiber Optic Sensors for Biomedical Applications 12. Fiber Bragg grating sensors in some biomedical structural health monitoring

• ISBN: 978-0-12-803131-5
• Editorial: Butterworth-Heinemann
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 512
• Fecha Publicación: 01/02/2018
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés