The Navy needs new sensors for shipboard machinery monitoring and control, condition-based maintenance, and damage assessment. Optical fiber sensors are strongly preferred because of their immunity to electrical disturbances, as well as potential size, weight, and performance advantages. But despite well over a decade of development and promise, relatively few optical fiber sensors available today can meet the Navy's needs with acceptable performance and cost. This report examines the reasons and recommends strategies to help the Navy achieve its goals. Some of the recommendations confirm approaches that the Navy is already implementing. Optical fiber sensors have very valuable potential advantages, but those that the Navy can use may remain too expensive to be deployed if the Navy uses traditional methods of writing specifications and soliciting development and procurement bids. For this reason, the study focuses on cooperation with industry and promoting commercial off-the-shelf and dual-use technology.
Optical Fiber Sensors: Accelerating Applications in Navy Ships
1994
114 pages
Report
No indication
English
Laboratory & Test Facility Design & Operation , Electrotechnology , Marine Engineering , Logistics Military Facilities & Supplies , Naval vessels , Fiber optics transmission lines , Pressure gages , Temperature measuring instruments , Cost analysis , Multiplexing , Military technology , Control systems , Specifications , Economic analysis , Signal processing , Damage assessment , Commercialization , Market research , Optical fiber sensors
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