Improvement on Health Monitoring System Using Self-diagnosis Materials for Practical Application

Electrically conductive glass-fiber-reinforced polymer composites containing carbon black have been prepared for strain sensing materials, and proposed as self-diagnosis materials. In this paper, improvement on the health monitoring systems using self-diagnosis materials for practical application is demonstrated. Firstly, production system of materials using pultrusion process has been established. Secondly, measuring devices to enable versatile and efficient evaluation have also been developed. Finally, the effort to enlarge the scope of applied target of our methods has been made. Applicability of our system to damage detection of wooden houses is discussed based on the experiments using timber frame structures.