Abstract
This paper details a study which was carried out on the application of FBG sensors for investigation of delamination crack status in glass fibre reinforced composite materials. A woven glass (0/90) epoxy composite sample containing a purposely created delamination and an embedded FBG sensor was investigated to study the behaviour of delamination crack under applied axial quasi-static tensile load. The reflected spectra from FBG sensor and the thermo-elastic response using an infrared camera were recorded to detect the propagation of delamination crack tip. In addition a finite element analysis (FEA) was performed using cohesive elements to simulate delamination crack tip. It has been seen that the propagation of delamination crack tip monitored from thermal stress analysis (TSA) was consistent with the prediction of the FBG sensor response. Further it has been observed that the experimentally observed delamination damage propagation was in a good agreement with FEA simulation results.
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