Embedded fiber optic sensing of composite-overwrapped pressure vessels

  Luna Innovations will be presenting a paper at the upcoming CAMX show titled “In-Situ SHM of Composite-Overwrapped Pressure Vessels”.  The paper is a collaboration with Structural Composites Industries (SCI), a leading commercial and military supplier of composite overwrapped pressure vessels (COPV), and demonstrates a novel approach to structural health monitoring (SHM) of air flasks using embedded high definition fiber optic sensing (HD-FOS) technology. Luna’s…Read More

Luna Innovations ODiSI platform with HD-FOS technology for temperature enables automotive engineers to expand the limits of design

When components are designed for aerospace, automotive or other general industrial applications, design factors are used to account for unknowns in the application or limitations in design validation. These design factors can come at a price in the form of excess material and cost.  In cases where knowledge of the application is insufficient to determine the correct design factor, premature component failure may result.  It…Read More

Testing for Residual Strains in 3D Printed Components using High Definition Distributed Fiber Optic Sensing (HD-FOS)

  In the May 2015 issue of the Harvard Business Review, Richard D’Aveni states that additive manufacturing is on the brink of completely transforming the design and production ecosystems for manufacturers of tangible goods.   https://hbr.org/2015/05/the-3-d-printing-revolution  Additive manufacturing frees both designers and manufacturers from many of the constraints of the normal product design, prototyping and industrialization process.  The cost and lead time for tooling can be…Read More

Design Validation of Wing Morphing Using Fiber Optic Distributed Sensing

Josiah Fee In response to government initiatives such as the FAA’s Continuous Lower Energy Emissions and Noise (CLEEN) program, aircraft manufactures are working on new technologies to increase efficiency and reduce noise.  The design of a morphing wing leading edge is one method that can be used to accomplish these goals. Traditionally, slats are used to increase the angle of attack of a wing for…Read More

Detecting Tunnel Excavation Sites Using Rayleigh Scatter Sensing

Jordan Stringfellow Mechanical Engineer llegal underground cross-border tunnels have been a challenging problem over the last few decades, especially in areas such as the Gaza strip and US-Mexico border. Increased smuggling of drugs, weapons, and people, has made it more important than ever to find an advanced solution to detect and locate these tunnels. Tunnels can range in sophistication, diameter, and depth, depending on their…Read More

Detecting Cracks In Steel Bridges Using Fiber Sensors

Jordan Stringfellow Mechanical Engineer Lightwave Division According to the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) in its 2013 Report Card for America’s Infrastructure, one in four bridges in the Unites States are “either structurally deficient or functionally obsolete”. It is approximated that $3.6 trillion is needed to improve the United States’ current infrastructure grade of D+ to an average grade of B. Infrastructure management teams…Read More

Come see us at OFC!

  Stop by and see us at OFC 2015 As we’ve done in the past, we will be demonstrating our optical technologies, including our Component Analyzers, Reflectometers, and Tunable Lasers. Have you seen our Fiber Optic Testing instruments yet? If not, you’ll be impressed! What you’ll see is that our technology offers substantial cost and time savings in development, production and maintenance; while providing the…Read More

Fiber Sensing Helps Validate Viability of the PRSEUS Concept in General Aviation

Josiah Fee Mechanical Engineer Lightwave Division Composites are a vital part of today’s and tomorrow’s aircraft innovation. With their high strength-to-weight ratio compared with metals, composites have opened up the possibilities for a number of novel aircraft structural designs. One such design is the Pultruded Rod Stitched Efficient Unitized Structure (PRSEUS) concept. This involves using a stitched skin and stringer-and-frame carbon fiber preform design for…Read More

ODiSI-B Software Update

  Great news for new and existing ODiSI-B users! Toward the end of 2014, Luna released a major software update for the revolutionary ODiSI-B strain and temperature measurement platform. The ODiSI (Optical Distributed Sensor Interrogator) uses low cost optical fiber to provide high speed, fully distributed strain and temperature measurements. It saves time and costs while adding a new dimension to sensing measurements with its…Read More

Introducing our new Resource Library

  What is it? It’s a library of resources to provide access to the tremendous amount of content that we have developed over the years. It includes product-specific literature, application-based technical resources, and media presentations of our unique technologies. Why should you care? It makes available to you all of the resources that we have developed It presents the content intuitively and effectively; categorized by…Read More