TY - CONF A1 - Schilder, Constanze A1 - Schukar, Marcus A1 - Steffen, Milan A1 - Krebber, Katerina ED - López-Higuera, J.M. ED - Jones, J. ED - López-Amo, M. ED - Santos, J.L. T1 - Evaluating distributed fibre optic sensors integrated into thermoplastic composites for structural health monitoring N2 - Strain sensors used for structural health monitoring (SHM) must provide reliable measurement data during their entire service lifetime. To achieve this for fibre optic sensors integrated into composites, the integration of the sensor has to be adapted according to the process conditions. This paper describes the fabrication of thermoplastic composite samples with integrated distributed fibre optic sensors (DFOS) based on copper-nickel and polyimide coated silica optical fibres. The performance of these DFOS as SHM sensors is evaluated in terms of reliability by measurements derived from comparative measurements with resistance strain gauges and from fatigue tests with 10 million load cycles. T2 - OFS2014 - 23rd International conference on optical fibre sensors CY - Santander, Spain DA - 2014-06-02 KW - Distributed fibre optic sensor KW - Integrated sensor KW - Reliability KW - Structural health monitoring KW - Strain gauge KW - Optical frequency domain reflectometry KW - Fatigue test PY - 2014 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2058604 SN - 0277-786X SN - 1996-756X N1 - Serientitel: Proceedings of SPIE – Series title: Proceedings of SPIE VL - 9157 SP - 91575Q-1 - 91575Q-4 AN - OPUS4-30861 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -