MAST' - Maritime Applications of Smart Structures Technology

Dates: 1996-1998

Sponsors: UK DTI/EPSRC LINK Photonics Programme Project

Brief:
To determine real time stresses and strains of critically loaded composite laminate structures through the use of fiber optic sensing technologies.

Partners:
Smart Fibres (formed from Carbospars Ltd)

BAE Systems

Aston University

Pendennis Shipyard

Delivered:
- A demonstration yacht equipped with a Smart 38m carbon fiber mast, instrumented with optical fiber sensors
- Advancement to the state of the art in the following:

• Application of fiber Bragg grating technology
• Embedment of optical fiber sensors
• A commercial viable optical fiber strain sensing system

For further information please see the Jacquelina Datasheet .