Damage detection and characterization using long-gauge and distributed fiber optic sensors

Branko Glisic; David L. Hubbell; Dorotea H. Sigurdardottir; Yao Yao

doi:10.1117/1.OE.52.8.087101

1 August 2013 Damage detection and characterization using long-gauge and distributed fiber optic sensors

Branko Glisic, David L. Hubbell, Dorotea H. Sigurdardottir, Yao Yao

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Optical Engineering, Vol. 52, Issue 8, 087101 (August 2013). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.52.8.087101

Abstract

Fiber optic strain sensors have significantly evolved and have reached their market maturity during the last decade. Their widely recognized advantages are high precision, long-term stability, and durability. In addition to these benefits, fiber optic (FO) techniques allow for affordable instrumentation of large areas of civil structures and infrastructure enabling global large-scale monitoring based on long-gauge sensors, and integrity monitoring based on distributed sensors. The FO techniques that enable these two approaches are based on fiber Bragg-gratings and Brillouin optical time-domain analysis. The aim of this paper is to present both FO techniques and both structural assessment approaches, and to validate them through large-scale applications. Although many other currently applied methods fail to detect the damage in real, on-site conditions, the presented approaches were proven to be suitable for damage detection and characterization, i.e., damage localization and, to certain extent, quantification. This is illustrated by two applications presented in detail in this paper: the first on a post-tensioned concrete bridge and the second on segmented concrete pipeline.

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Branko Glisic, David L. Hubbell, Dorotea H. Sigurdardottir, and Yao Yao "Damage detection and characterization using long-gauge and distributed fiber optic sensors," Optical Engineering 52(8), 087101 (1 August 2013). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.52.8.087101

Published: 1 August 2013

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