'AHMOS' - Active Health Monitoring of Structures

Dates: 2000-2003

Sponsors: 8 European defence customers under Euclid programme

Project Brief: To define, develop and demonstrate practical Structural Health Monitoring systems able to reduce the cost of ownership of military aircraft or other military platforms by reducing inspection and maintenance costs

Partners:
BAE Systems / QinetiQ / Smart Fibres (UK)
EADS-DASA (Germany)
Patria Finavitec Oy / VTT Manufacturing Technology (Finland)
Stork Fokker Services / National Aerospace Laboratory (Netherlands)
Alenia Aerospazio / Centro Italiano Ricerche Aerospaziali (Italy)
EADS-CASA / Instituto Nacional de Téchnica Aeroespacial / Universidad Politecnica de Madrid (Spain)
DEMEX Consulting Engineers AS / Risø National Laboratory (Denmark)
Centre Spatial de Liège (Belgium)

Delivered:
- Advancement of the technology readiness level of 7 candidate sensor technologies
- Development of an open system architecture for integrated SHM systems
- Demonstration of condition monitoring and damage detection on three ground based aircraft test structures

The consortium have embarked on a follow on project to build upon the successes of 'AHMOS'.

'AHMOS' 2 aims to deliver:

-Demonstration of operational SHM systems based on the sensing technologies matured under AHMOS

-Two flight test demostrators (Hawk & F-18) supported by ground based damage detection tests

-Assessment of developed SHMS operational reliability and cost benefit

-Assessment of replacing conventional inspection procedures with SHMS