Composites Pressure Vessels

Control your process,

Improve your design,

monitor your vessel integrity.

Com&Sens has extensive experience in co-winding Fiber Optics Sensors lines in filament winding processes.

The unique embedded Fiber Bragg grating Fiber Optic line allows vessels producers to monitor the winding process, to follow the degradation of the vessels during quality testings and to develop in-service condition monitoring of the vessels integrity.

Benefits

Finetune your process
Validate your Finite Analysis parameters
Assess your prototypes and FAI
Secure your quality controls
Monitor your vessel integrity
Predict lifetime

Fibre Optics

Non Intrusive
Sense Multipoints (20 to 35 points with a single line)
Embedded
Accurate
Secure
Longlasting

PROCESS CONTROL

Continuously monitor your production process during winding and curing.

DESIGN VALIDATION

By embedding the sensor lines into the different layers of the filament windings an in-situ stress/strain profile can be obtained

QUALITY ASSURANCE

Follow up your vessel during pressurization (loading and unloading). Notice the small changes in the slope sensed by the fibre optic sensors.

IN SERVICE

Continuous read-out of the sensing points in the filament winded pressure vessel can provide the user real-time information on the integrity of the vessel.

make your COPV SELF SENSING

Expand product design features

Evaluation and modelling of the behaviour of your pressure vessel already during winding. Control your winding parameters via co-winding of optical fibre sensor lines.

Improve your design by real data.

Use the sensors after winding during cyclic and burst testing to follow up the structural degradation of your vessel. Use the response of the sensors to validate your FE calculations.

Know your product integrity to enhance safe use

Monitor the condition of your product over its life cycle, to increase confidence and safety in your product.

CASE STUDIES

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COMPOSITES PRESSURE VESSELS