• 비파괴검사학회지
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• 제27권6호
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• pp.556-562
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• 2007

This paper presents the use of a novel fiber optic accelerometer system to monitor ambient vibration (both wind-induced one and vehicle-induced) of a real bridge structure. This sensor system integrates the $Moir\'{e}$ fringe phenomenon with fiber optics to achieve accurate and reliable measurements. A low-cost signal processing unit implements unique algorithms to further enhance the resolution and increase the dynamic bandwidth of the sensors. The fiber optic accelerometer has two major benefits in using this fiber optic accelerometer system for monitoring civil engineering structures. One is its immunity to electromagnetic (EM) interference making it suitable for difficult applications in such environments involving strong EM fields, electrical spark-induced explosion risks, and cabling problems, prohibiting the use of conventional electromagnetic accelerometers. The other is its ability to measure both low- and high-amplitude vibrations with a constantly high resolution without pre-setting a gain level, as usually required in a conventional accelerometer. The second benefit makes the sensor system particularly useful for real-time measurement of both ambient vibration (that is often used for structural health monitoring) and strong motion such as earthquake. Especially, the semi-strong motion and the small ambient one are successfully simulated and measured by using the new fiber optic accelerometer in the experiment of the structural health monitoring of a real bridge.

• 비파괴검사학회지
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• 제27권4호
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• pp.291-298
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• 2007

본 논문은 단자유도 동적 센서 시스템의 동적 구간을 조절할 수 있는 새로운 신호 처리법을 소개한다. 또한 본 논문에서는 무아래 현상을 응용한 신개념의 광섬유 가속도계를 사용하여 신호 처리법을 검증하였다. 신개념의 광섬유 가속도계는 단일 질량, 단일 탄성자 그리고 단일 감쇠자로 이루어진 단자유도 동적 시스템으로서 동적 구간이 작아 이출 증가시키기 위해서는 질량이나 탄성자 상수를 조절하는 등의 기계적 조절이 필요하다. 그러나 본 논문에서 제안한 신호처리 방법을 적용한다면 센서를 다시 제작하지 않고도 동적 구간을 쉽게 조절할 수 있게 된다. 본 논문에서는 여러 모의실험과 실제 실험을 통해 본 신호 처리 알고리즘의 성능을 검증하였으며 결과적으로 이러한 신호처리 알고리즘이 광섬유 가속도계의 동적 구간을 손쉽게 조절할 수 있는 효과적인 방법임을 보여주었다.

• 센서학회지
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.40-46
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• 2006

This paper presents a novel fiber optic accelerometer system for monitoring vibration of large-size structures. The system is composed of one (or multiple) sensor head, a light control unit and a signal processing unit. The sensing mechanism of the sensor head is based on a novel integration of the moire fringe phenomenon with fiber optics to achieve a robust performance in addition to its immunity to EM interference, easy cabling, and low cost. In this paper, a prototype of the fiber optic accelerometer system has been developed successfully. A low-cost light control unit has been developed to drive the system's optic and electronic components. A unique algorithm has also been developed to derive the sensor's acceleration from the raw signals of the light control unit; it is implemented via a separate signal processing unit. Finally, the shaking table tests successfully demonstrate the performance and the potential of the moire fringe fiber optic sensor system to monitor the health of civil infrastructures.

• 비파괴검사학회지
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• 제26권6호
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• pp.373-379
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• 2006

Vibration-based structural health monitoring is one of non-destructive evaluation (NDE) techniques for civil infrastructures. This paper presents a novel fiber optic accelerometer system to monitor civil engineering structures and a successful application of the novel sensor system for measuring ambient vibration of a real building structure. This sensor system integrates the Moire fringe phenomenon with fiber optics to achieve accurate and reliable measurements. The sensor system is immune to electromagnetic (EM) interference making it suitable for difficult applications in such environments involving strong EM fields, electrical spark-induced explosion risks, and cabling problems, prohibiting the use of conventional electromagnetic accelerometers. A prototype sensor system has been developed, together with a signal processing software. The experimental studies demonstrated the high-performance of the fiber optic sensor system. Especially, the sensor was successfully used for monitoring a real building on UCI (University of California Irvine, USA).

• 대한기계학회논문집A
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• 제25권10호
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• pp.1551-1558
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• 2001

Recently, a number of underground pipelines have been drastically increased. The integrity of these buried pipelines, especially gas transmitting pipelines, is of importance due to an explosive characteristic of natural gas. The third party damage is known as one of the most critical factor which causes fatal accidents. For this reason, a number of systems detecting third party damage are under development. The major concern in the development of third party damage detection system is to transmit vibration signals out of accelerometer to signal conditioner and data acquisition system without any interference caused by noise. The objective of this paper is to develope a fiber optic accelerometer applicable to third party damage detection system. A fiber optic accelerometer was developed by use of combining principles of one degree of freedom vibration model and an extrinsic Fabry-Perot interferometer. The developed fiber optic accelerometer was designed to perform with a sensitivity of 0.06mVg, a frequency range of less than 6kHz and an amplitude range of -200g to 200g. The developed, accelerometer was compared with a piezoelectric accelerometer and calibrated. In order to verify the developed accelerometer, the field experiment was performed. From the field experiment, vibration signals and the location of impact were successfully detected. The developed accelerometer is expected to be used for the third party damage detection system which requires long distance transmission of signals.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제5권4호
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• pp.345-355
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• 2009

This article describes the development of a fiber optic accelerometer based on Fiber Bragg Gratings (FBG). The accelerometer utilizes the stiffness of the optical fiber and a lumped mass in the design. Acceleration is measured by the FBG in response to the vibration of the fiber optic mass system. The wavelength shift of FBG is proportional to the change in acceleration, and the gauge factor pertains to the shift in wavelength as a function of acceleration. Low frequency version of the accelerometer was developed for applications in monitoring bridges. The accelerometer was first evaluated in laboratory settings and then employed in a demonstration project for condition assessment of a bridge. Laboratory experiments involved evaluation of the sensitivity and resolution of measurements under a series of low frequency low amplitude conditions. The main feature of this accelerometer is single channel multiplexing capability rendering the system highly practical for application in condition assessment of bridges. This feature of the accelerometer was evaluated by using the system during ambient vibration tests of a bridge. The Frequency Domain Decomposition method was employed to identify the mode shapes and natural frequencies of the bridge. Results were compared with the data acquired from the conventional accelerometers.

• 대한공업교육학회지
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• 제32권2호
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• pp.171-187
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• 2007

이 연구의 목적은 선삭 가공시 발생하는 채터 진동을 계측하기 위하여 일반적인 가속도계가 가진 단점을 보완한 페브리-페롯형(Fabry-Prtot) 광섬유 간섭계 센서를 공구에 직접 부착하여 채터 진동을 측정하고 이것의 유용성을 확인하는 것이다. 측정된 주파수 스펙트럼과 이론해석 상의 리셉턴스 곡선과 비교하였는데 공구진동이 클수록 가진 주파수 이동이 생성되며 이는 공구의 날 끝에 질량효과가 더해짐을 의미함을 알 수 있었다. 질량효과가 더해지면 진동 주파수는 저주파 쪽으로 이동한다. 진동 주파수의 저주파 영역의 이동은 일반적인 재생형 채터에서 흔히 일어나는 현상이다. 또한 측정한 채터 주파수는 고유진동수가 아닌 외부 가진 주파수인 것으로 확인 됐으며 측정 결과와 같이 본 실험에 사용된 광섬유 센서는 외부 진동 주파수를 잘 계측 하였으며 페브리-페롯 센서는 특히 공구진동의 측정에 유용함을 보았다. 본 연구를 통하여 적용분야로 간섭계형 광섬유 센서를 공구 표면에 직접 설치하고 공구 진동을 관찰하는 교육목적의 실험에도 응용할 수 있다. 본 실험과 같은 페브리-페롯 간섭계 센서의 공구 직접 접촉식 방법에 대한 연구는 국내외 적으로 그 사례를 찾아보기 힘든 독창적인 방법인 것으로 추정된다. 본 연구결과는 또한 향후 공구진동과 마멸을 연구하는데 기초 자료로 활용할 수 있을 것으로 판단된다.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제17권10호
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• pp.1092-1099
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• 1992

본 논문은 광섬유 가속도기를 이용한 중력가속도$(0{\sim}1G)$의 감도를 보였다. 단일모드 광섬유 Mach-Zehnder 간섭계가 약 1 그람 정도의 probe mass를 이용하여 광섬유 내의 스트레인에 의해 발생된 광로정 변화를 감지하는데 이용 되었다. 본 시스템의 기준 통로내 PZT 원통의 위상 변환 이득은 0.88rad./v로 측정 되었다.

• 한국소음진동공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국소음진동공학회 2007년도 춘계학술대회논문집
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• pp.81-84
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• 2007

In this paper, fiber optic sound and vibration monitoring sensor which is latticed shape structure based on Sagnac interferometer is fabricated and tested in laboratory conditions. To detect external vibrations surface mounted fibers on the latticed steel wire fence with a dimension of 170cm by 180cm is used. To detect external sound frequency the tightened fiber optic itself wire netting fence with a dimension of 50cm by 50cm is used. Experiments for the detection of the excited vibration and sound signals were performed. A small vibrator induced external vibration signal and it is applied to the latticed structure in the range of 100Hz to several kHz. External sound signal applied to the fiber optic sensor net using non-directional sound speaker. The detected optical signals were compared and analyzed to the detected both accelerometer and microphone signals in the time and frequency domain. Based on the experimental results, distributed fiber optic sensor using Sagnac interferometer detected effectively external vibration and sound signal and had a good performance. This system can be expanded to the monitoring of a significant system and to the structural health monitoring system.

• 대한공업교육학회지
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• 제34권1호
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• pp.274-286
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• 2009

광섬유 센서는 음향이나 진동을 계측하는 곳에 광범위하게 사용된다. 특히 간섭계형 광섬유 센서는 이러한 물리량을 계측하는데 더욱 적합하다.본 연구에서는 페브리-페롯 간섭계형 광섬유 센서를 이용하여 파이프 내에서 발생하는 유체유기진동을 측정하였다. 이러한 진동은 또한 가속도계로도 측정하였고, 두 측정치를 서로 비교하였다. 파이프에서 벤츄리, 노즐, 침출 배럴, 급 확대관 등에 흐르는 유체로 인한 진동을 계측하였다. 유량은 50 L/min에서 150 L/min로 변화시켰고 파이프 내를 흐르는 유체의 평균 유속은 7 m/s정도였다. 실험결과에 근거하여 제안된 광섬유 센서는 유체유기진동을 잘 측정하였고 따라서 이러한 시스템은 파이프라인이나 케이블, 빌딩등에서 발생하는 유체유기진동으로 인한 시스템 모니터링에 적용할 수 있을 것으로 판단된다.