Part 1 Smart Textiles for Monitoring and Measurement Applications 1. Introduction 2. Smart Textiles 3. Sensors - Definition and Classification 4. Connectors 5. Conductive Polymers and Fibres 6. Textile Sensors Development Steps 7. Characterisation of Textile Sensors 8. Interface phenomena of textile sensors and related textile reinforced thermoplastic composites
Part 2 Composites and Hybrid structures 9. Textile Reinforced Composites 10. Glass Fibres 11. Aramid Fibres 12. Carbon Fibres 13. Bio Sourced Fibres 14. Failure Mechanisms in Composites 15. Hybrid Structures - Bonding Issues
Part 3 Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) of composite structures 16. Health Monitoring Definitions 17. State of the art of traditional monitoring techniques 18. Interface phenomena of textile sensors and related textile reinforced thermoplastic composites 19. Predictive maintenance concept
Part 4 Structural Health Monitoring of processes related to composite manufacturing 20. Weaving Process 21. Stamping Process Supervision 22. Infusion Process Supervision
Professor Vladan Koncar is head of research at ENSAIT and director of the GEMTEX research laboratory. He has authored more than 200 scientific articles, including journal papers, book chapters and conference proceedings.