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2.6.2 Aims of Structural Health Monitoring (SHM)<br />

The main aims of SHM are to maximise the life structure, reducing whole life<br />

cost by reducing the number of scheduled non-destructive examination (NDE) services,<br />

<strong>an</strong>d providing additional safety measures as explained by Fixter <strong>an</strong>d Williamson (2006).<br />

These aims are further discussed in their comprehensive report in a state of the art<br />

review on SHM which looks at the current status of optical fibre <strong>an</strong>d electrical<br />

technologies with the main interest being on those sensors that are applied to composite<br />

structures. Sohn et al. (2003) also provide a comprehensive review of the technical<br />

literature on SHM with similar aims.<br />

2.6.3 Optical Fibre Sensor (OFS)<br />

Inaudi <strong>an</strong>d Glisic (2005) discuss distributed fibre optic sensing as one of the<br />

most effective SHM techniques since it is able to measure temperatures <strong>an</strong>d strain at<br />

thous<strong>an</strong>ds of points along a single fibre in the monitoring of large structures such as<br />

pipelines, oil wells etc. The sensing system is based on Brillouin <strong>an</strong>d Ram<strong>an</strong> Scattering<br />

works with three cable designs for high temperature sensing, strain sensing (called<br />

SMARTape) as shown in Figure 2.15, <strong>an</strong>d combined strain <strong>an</strong>d temperature monitoring<br />

(called SMARTProfile).<br />

Figure 2.15: Graph of the sensing SMARTape (Left), SMARTape on the gas<br />

pipeline (Right) (Inaudi <strong>an</strong>d Glisic, 2005)<br />

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