Aircraft structures are highly complicated mechanical systems that demand constant maintenance in order to ensure safety and airworthiness. The requirements for structural integrity lead to various structural health monitoring processes, such as operational load monitoring. This book describes the development of an advanced smart load monitoring system based on optical fiber Bragg grating sensors for a UAV composite tail boom. The smart load monitoring system comprising optical interrogator, controller computer and embedded optical fibers, was integrated into the airframe and was able to...