Structural health monitoring (SHM) in-service is very important and definitely demanded for the safe working of high performance composite structures in situ. Fiber Bragg grating-based sensors were usually embedded inside a composite to compose a smart structure for a real time monitor. However, the mechanical performance of the materials would be unfavorably influenced. To lower the influence, a smaller diameter optical fiber is preferred. In this paper, a new non-destructive evaluation sensor system based on small diameter fiber Bragg grating (SDFBG) was proposed. The impact results show that the SDFBG sensor could be used in dynamic strain measurement and detect the natural frequency of the structure. Furthermore, the sensor would be applied in SHM.
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