Bonded thin metallic foil sensor applications for structural health monitoring of aeronautical structures

Recent work on thin metallic foil sensors allows their application to be expanded to aeronautics and three fundamentally different functions, which are load path detectors, fatigue life sensors and crack assessors. Support to comply with the Airbus directives and airworthiness rules was given. Expectations in terms of performance and user interface were suggested in the paper. Additional practical concerns were addressed to ensure the technology is achieving such challenging goals.