Integration of optical sensors into smart composites and advances instruments.

这个为期两年的项目旨在将光纤布拉格光栅（FBG）传感器集成到用于航空航天技术和材料合成的智能复合材料和仪器中，以监测其运行过程中的结构健康、完整性和厚度。主要的研究活动与保护涂层、自愈材料和高敏感装置的发展有关，这些装置因磨损、老化效应和与空间碎片和反应性等离子体的高速碰撞而造成的损坏将进行研究。将与MPB技术公司（一家为航空航天工业开发高电阻紧凑型系统和智能FBG传感器的公司）和Plasmionique公司（一家专门设计用于先进材料合成的等离子室和先进仪器的公司）密切合作，设计和测试几种能够实时自我诊断其结构完整性的光学传感器。我们的目标有三个：(i)帮助我们的工业合作伙伴提高和优化其产品的质量和可靠性，（ii）实施实验平台和平台，以执行可靠和可重复的测试，（iii）开发用于结构健康监测的创新组件和智能仪器。我们的研究将在montrsamal区域进行，所有的实验和高级表征都将在那里进行。为了实现我们的目标，其中包括几个原型的概念，我们计划招募一名博士生和一名博士后（PDF），他们将在整个项目期间由一名研究助理协助。预期的影响将导致有关智能材料和FBG传感器的知识的进步，以及它们在保护涂层和监测系统中的应用。

This two year project aims at integrating Fiber Bragg Grating (FBG) sensors into smart composites and instruments used in aerospace technology and material synthesis, to monitor their structural health integrity and thicknesses during their operation. The main research activities are related to the development of protective coatings, self-healing materials and high-sensitive devices, whose damaging due to wear, ageing effects and high velocity collisions with space debris and reactive plasmas will be investigated. Several optical sensors that are able to provide a self-diagnostic of their structural integrity in real-time will be designed and tested, in close collaboration with MPB Technology Inc., a company that develops highly resistant compact systems and smart FBG sensors for aerospace industry, and Plasmionique Inc., a company specialized in the design of plasma chambers and advanced instruments employed in advanced materials synthesis. Our objectives are triple: (i) help our industrial partners improve and optimize both the quality and the reliability of their products, (ii) implement experimental benches and platforms to perform reliable and reproducible tests, (iii) develop innovative components and smart instruments for structural-health monitoring. Our research will be conducted in the Montréal Area, where all experiments and advanced characterizations will be carried out. To achieve our goals, which include the conception of several prototypes, we plan to recruit one PhD student and one postdoctoral fellow (PDF), who will be assisted by one Research Associate during the whole duration of the project. The expected impacts will result in advancing knowledge regarding smart materials and FBG sensors, as well as in their implementation into protective coatings and monitoring systems.