Development of Hybrid Piezoelectric-Fibre Optic Composite Patch Repair Solutions

This paper proposes a hybrid structural health monitoring (SHM) solution for a smart composite patch repair for aircraft structures based on piezoelectric (PZT) and fibre optic (FO) sensors to monitor the integrity of a the bondline and detect any degradation. FO sensors are used to acquire guided waves excited by PZT transducers to allow the advantages of both sensor technologies to be utilised. One of the main challenges of guided wave based detection methodologies is to distinguish the effect of temperature on the propagating waves, from that of an existing damage. In this research, the application of the hybrid SHM system is tested on a composite step sanded repair coupon under operational condition (temperature variation) representative of an aircraft for the first time. The sensitivity of the embedded FO sensor in recording the strain waves is compared to the signals acquired by PZT sensors under varying temperature. A novel compensation algorithm is proposed to correct for the effect of the temperature on the embedded FO sensor spectrum in the hybrid set-up. The repaired specimen is then impacted with a drop mass to cause barely visible impact damage (BVID). The hybrid SHM system is then used to detect the damage, and its diagnosis results are compared to a PZT only based smart repair solution. The results show promising application of the hybrid solution for monitoring bondline integrity as well as highlighting challenges of the embedding of FO sensors for a reliable and repeatable diagnosis.

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