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Triboluminescent Materials for Smart Optical Damage Sensors for Space Applications

Author
Aggarwal, M. D.
Published
May 2008.
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1 electronic document
Additional Creators
Miller, J., Penn, B. G., Sadate, S., and Batra, A. K.
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Summary
There is a need to develop a new technique of damage detection for composites, which could detect cracking or delamination from any desired location within a material structure in real time. Recently, triboluminescent materials have been proposed as smart sensors of structural damage. To sense the damage, these materials can be epoxy bonded, coated in a polymer matrix, or embedded in a composite host structure. When the damage or fracture takes place in the host structure, the resultant fracture of triboluminescent crystals creates a light emission. This will warn in real time that structural damage has occurred. The triboluminescent emission of the candidate phosphor has to be bright enough that the light reaching from the point of fracture to the detector through a fiber optic cable is detectable. There are a large number of triboluminescent materials, but few satisfy the above criterion. The authors have synthesized an organic material known as Europium tetrakis (dibenzoylmethide) triethylammonium (EuD4TEA), which is a potential candidate for application as a damage sensor and could be made into a wireless sensor with the addition of microchip, antenna, and electronics. Preliminary results on the synthesis and characterization of this material are presented.
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NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) Collection.
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Document ID: 20080025731.
M-1230.
NASA/TM-2008-215410.
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