Radio Frequency Health Monitoring of Composite Structures

Program Code: 1661

Objectives:

The objective of this thesis is to investigate and develop a Radio Frequency (RF) method to monitor internal stresses in composite structures. The premise behind the method is that a conductive fibre will reflect an incident RF wave and that the frequency of the reflected wave will be modulated as a function of the strain induced in the conductive fibre due to the stress in the surrounding composite matrix.

Contact:

Dr Murat Tahtali m.tahtali@adfa.edu.au