On-line monitoring of multi-component strain development in a tufting needle using optical fibre Bragg grating sensors

Chehura, Edmon; Dell'Anno, Giuseppe; Huet, Tristan; Staines, Stephen E.; James, Stephen W.; Partridge, Ivana K.; Tatam, Ralph P.

dc.contributor.author	Chehura, Edmon	-
dc.contributor.author	Dell'Anno, Giuseppe	-
dc.contributor.author	Huet, Tristan	-
dc.contributor.author	Staines, Stephen E.	-
dc.contributor.author	James, Stephen W.	-
dc.contributor.author	Partridge, Ivana K.	-
dc.contributor.author	Tatam, Ralph P.	-
dc.date.accessioned	2014-07-10T04:00:48Z
dc.date.available	2014-07-10T04:00:48Z
dc.date.issued	2014-05-20T00:00:00Z	-
dc.identifier.citation	Edmon Chehura, Giuseppe Dell'Anno, Tristan Huet, Stephen Staines, Stephen W James, Ivana K Partridge, and Ralph P Tatam, On-line monitoring of multi-component strain development in a tufting needle using optical fibre Bragg grating sensors, Smart Materials and Structures, Volume 23, Number 7, Paper Number 075001.
dc.identifier.issn	0964-1726	-
dc.identifier.uri	http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0964-1726/23/7/075001	-
dc.identifier.uri	http://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/8596
dc.identifier.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
dc.description.abstract	Dynamic loadings induced on a tufting needle during the tufting of dry carbon fibre preform via a commercial robot-controlled tufting head were investigated in situ and in real-time using optical fibre Bragg grating (FBG) sensors bonded to the needle shaft. The sensors were configured such that the axial strain and bending moments experienced by the needle could be measured. A study of the influence of thread and thread type on the strain imparted to the needle revealed axial strain profiles which had equivalent trends but different magnitudes. The mean of the maximum axial compression strains measured during the tufting of a 4-ply quasi-isotropic carbon fibre dry preform were - 499 ± 79 με, - 463 ± 51 με and - 431 ± 59 με for a needle without thread, with metal wire and with Kevlar® thread, respectively. The needle similarly exhibited bending moments of different magnitude when the different needle feeding configurations were used.	en_UK
dc.language.iso	en_UK	-
dc.publisher	Institute of Physics	en_UK
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dc.title	On-line monitoring of multi-component strain development in a tufting needle using optical fibre Bragg grating sensors	en_UK
dc.type	Article	-
dc.identifier.cris	5411848