Fiber optic approach for detecting corrosion

Roman Kostecki; Heike Ebendorff-Heidepriem; Claire Davis; Grant McAdam; Tianyu Wang; Tanya M. Monro

doi:10.1117/12.2219496

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20 April 2016 Fiber optic approach for detecting corrosion

Roman Kostecki, Heike Ebendorff-Heidepriem, Claire Davis, Grant McAdam, Tianyu Wang, Tanya M. Monro

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Proceedings Volume 9803, Sensors and Smart Structures Technologies for Civil, Mechanical, and Aerospace Systems 2016; 98031I (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2219496
Event: SPIE Smart Structures and Materials + Nondestructive Evaluation and Health Monitoring, 2016, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States

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Corrosion is a multi-billion dollar problem faced by industry. The ability to monitor the hidden metallic structure of an aircraft for corrosion could result in greater availability of existing aircraft fleets. Silica exposed-core microstructured optical fiber sensors are inherently suited towards this application, as they are extremely lightweight, robust, and suitable both for distributed measurements and for embedding in otherwise inaccessible corrosion-prone areas. By functionalizing the fiber with chemosensors sensitive to corrosion by-products, we demonstrate in-situ kinetic measurements of accelerated corrosion in simulated aluminum aircraft joints.

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Roman Kostecki, Heike Ebendorff-Heidepriem, Claire Davis, Grant McAdam, Tianyu Wang, and Tanya M. Monro "Fiber optic approach for detecting corrosion", Proc. SPIE 9803, Sensors and Smart Structures Technologies for Civil, Mechanical, and Aerospace Systems 2016, 98031I (20 April 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2219496

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