Virginia Tech supports the largest university-based program in fiber optics and smart structures in the country. Fiber optics and fiber optics-related undergraduate and graduate lecture and laboratory courses serve more than 450 students each year in classes on campus and at several off-campus locations. The Fiber & Electro-Optics Research Center within the Bradley Department of Electrical Engineering currently is engaged in more than thirty separate fiber optics research programs sponsored by companies and government organizations. These include work in long distance and local area network fiber communications, fiber sensing including smart structures, fiber micro-optical devices, and fiber manufacturing and materials. The Smart Materials and Structures Laboratory within the Department of Mechanical Engineering currently is engaged in an additional twelve sponsored programs which focus primarily on actuators, shape memory composites, and active structural control. This paper reviews these combined activities.


    Access

    Check access

    Check availability in my library

    Order at Subito €


    Export, share and cite



    Title :

    Overview Of Fiber Optics And Smart Structures Programs At Virginia Tech


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    Fiber Optic Smart Structures and Skins II ; 1989 ; Boston,United States


    Published in:

    Publication date :

    1990-02-05





    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



    System overview of the Virginia Tech Ground Station

    Hitefield, Seth / Leffke, Zach / Fowler, Michael et al. | IEEE | 2016


    Smart Structures - The Relevance of Fiber Optics

    Culshaw, B. / Gardiner, P. T. | British Library Online Contents | 1992


    The DARPA Grand Challenge: overview of the Virginia Tech vehicle and experience

    Bacha, A. / Reinholtz, C. / Wicks, A. et al. | IEEE | 2004



    Virginia tech advanced towing carriage

    Gilbert, Christine / Javaherian, Mohammad Javad / Woolsey, Craig et al. | SAGE Publications | 2023