Aerospace
Serving the Aerospace Industry, Condition Engineering, Inc. is developing a novel fiber optic sensing system for monitoring the temperature and structural integrity of high-temperature materials. The structural health monitoring system can self-diagnose dangerous conditions within high-temperature materials and alert the appropriate personnel. Our integrated structural health monitoring system serves to reduce potential in-service failures.
Suitable Applications:
- Thermal Protection Systems;
- Hot Structures;
- Leading Edges, including Carbon-Carbon Composites;
- Missile Nosetips;
- Heatshields, including re-entry heatshields;
- Airframes;
- Furnace Insulation.
Benefits of the fiber optic sensors and sensing system include:
- Enhances reliability of critical high-temperature components;
- Continuous monitoring of structural integrity and temperature;
- Lightweight;
- Low power consumption;
- Sensors incorporated either during or after manufacture of high-temperature components;
- Ability to sense at various depths within high-temperature components;
- Applicable for ground testing and in-flight operation of high-temperature materials and structures;
- Fiber optic sensors are immune to, and do not cause electromagnetic interference;
- Sensors can be networked together to form an intelligent Distributed Monitoring System.