Newsletter May 2003
Sensors for Aircraft Systems
The Institute of Physics 'Instrument Science and Technology' Group has held a recent meeting on May 14th in London on sensors for aircraft systems. It covered sensors for several different aspects of aircraft performance covering both airframe and engines.
Papers presented of interest to structural monitoring include:
- Experimental mechanics approach to sensing for structural health monitoring of civil aircraft (Airbus UK)
- Thin polymer films for electromechanical applications (University of Potsdam, Mirow Systemtechnik Gmbh)
- Curvature sensing using fibre Bragg gratings in multicore film (Heriot Watt University, Aston University)
- Sensors and sensor systems for airframe structural health monitoring (BAE Systems)
- Aircraft Wheel/tyre examination using optical strain gauge testing (Loughborough University)
- Requirements for sensor technology for gas turbine propulsion systems (Rolls-Royce plc)
- Automated fault detection in helicopter gearboxes using a modified Kohonen Self organising map (University of Liverpool)
- Sensors for the adaptive control of aircraft ice protection (Cranfield University)
Further details from http://physics.iop.org/IOP/confs/SAS/
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