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Applications of fiber optic sensors in civil engineering

  • Deng, Lu;Cai, C.S.
    • Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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    • v.25 no.5
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    • pp.577-596
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    • 2007
  • Recent development of fiber optic sensor technology has provided an excellent choice for civil engineers for performance monitoring of civil infrastructures. Fiber optic sensors have the advantages of small dimensions, good resolution and accuracy, as well as excellent ability to transmit signal at long distances. They are also immune to electromagnetic and radio frequency interference and may incorporate a series of interrogated sensors multiplexed along a single fiber. These advantages make fiber optic sensors a better method than traditional damage detection methods and devices to some extent. This paper provides a review of recent developments in fiber optic sensor technology as well as some applications of fiber optic sensors to the performance monitoring of civil infrastructures such as buildings, bridges, pavements, dams, pipelines, tunnels, piles, etc. Existing problems of fiber optic sensors with their applications to civil structural performance monitoring are also discussed.

Development of Monitoring System for Inspection of Polarization Optical Fiber (편광 유지형 광섬유의 검사 모니터링 시스템 개발)

  • Kim, Jae-Yoel;Lim, Jong-Han
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Machine Tool Engineers
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    • v.16 no.5
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    • pp.145-150
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    • 2007
  • Optical communication according to request of technology of communications and optical fiber to be full filed faster communication and pass over transmission capacity limit per unit area, per unit hour appeared, and this optical fiber acts the biggest role to influence performance of optical communication network. Optical fiber(PMF Polarization Maintaining Fiber) is used, and is used by electric field measurement, self-discipline measurement, sensor(Sensor) Department by high definition measure such as thermometry and storehouse component that use because make broad sense status and polarized light information in passageway and union with storehouse integrated circuit etc. that use broad sense interference developing could transmit in state that keep transmitting broad sense plane of polarization is polarized light existence. Also, research is developed by optical fiber for Coherent communication recently.

Fiber Interferometers Based on Low Loss Fusion Splicing of Photonic Crystal Fibers (저손실 융착접속을 이용한 광자결정 광섬유 간섭계)

  • Ahn, Jin-Soo;Kim, Gil-Hwan;Lee, Kwan-Il;Lee, Kyung-Shik;Lee, Sang-Bae
    • Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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    • v.21 no.5
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    • pp.200-205
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    • 2010
  • We report temperature and strain sensing characteristics of two kinds of in-line fiber interferometers. One interferometer consists of a section of Hollow Optical Fiber(HOF) spliced between two Photonic Bandgap Fibers(PBGF) and the other is built by splicing a section of HOF between two Large Mode Area-Photonic Crystal Fibers(LMA-PCF). To minimize the splice losses, we carefully optimized the heating time and arc current of the splicer so as not to collapse the air holes of the fiber. It is found that the first interferometer has a temperature sensitivity of 15.4 pm/$^{\circ}C$ and a strain sensitivity of 0.24 pm/${\mu}\varepsilon$. The other interferometer exhibits a temperature sensitivity of 17.4 pm/$^{\circ}C$ and a strain sensitivity of 0.2 pm/${\mu}\varepsilon$.

Signal Characteristics of Fiber Bragg Grating Sensor with Gage Length (광섬유 브래그 격자 센서의 게이지 길이에 따른 신호 특성)

  • 강동훈;김대현;방형준;홍창선;김천곤
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society For Composite Materials Conference
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    • 2002.10a
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    • pp.155-160
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    • 2002
  • A new fabrication method of FBG sensor with gage length shorter than 10 mm is introduced using the reflection prism with special coating on the surface. It is verified that the bandwidth of FBG sensor increases exponentially as the gage length of it decreases. The transverse stress and strain gradient induced by local stress concentration which occurs during curing has an influence on the FBG sensor with gage length of 2 mm less than that of 10 mm.

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A study on stabilization of a fiber-optic current sensor using sagnac interferometer (Sagnac 간섭계형 광섬유 전류센서의 안정화 연구)

  • 정래성;강현서;이종훈;송정태;이경식
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics D
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    • v.34D no.4
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    • pp.94-99
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    • 1997
  • A new method of stbilizing the sagnac interferometric fiber optic current sensor inteh presence of birefringences and phase is presented. This method is realized by dividing the output of the ac current signal with the modulation signal output. Using the technique the stability of the current sensor was improve dmore than 4.5 times at 800Arms for 2 hours. The current sensor also shows good linearity up to 100Arms.

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Electrochemical Sensor for Non-Enzymatic Glucose Detection Based on Flexible CNT Fiber Electrode Dispersed with CuO Nanoparticles (산화구리 나노입자가 분산된 CNT fiber 유연 전극 기반의 글루코스 검출용 비효소적 전기화학센서)

  • Min-Jung Song
    • Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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    • v.61 no.1
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    • pp.52-57
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    • 2023
  • This study is a basic research for the development of high performance flexible electrode material. To enhance its electrochemical property, CuO nanoparticles (CuO NPs) were introduced and dispersed on surface of CNT fiber through electrochemical deposition method. The CNT fiber/CuO NPs electrode was fabricated and applied to electrochemical non-enzymatic glucose sensor. Surface morphology and elemental composition of the CNT fiber/CuO NPs electrode was characterized by scanning electron microscope (SEM) with energy dispersive X-ray spectrometry (EDS). And its electrochemical characteristics were investigated by cyclic voltammetry, electrochemical impedance spectroscopy and chronoamperometry. The CNT fiber/CuO NPs electrode exhibited the good sensing performance for glucose detection such as high sensitivity, wide linear range, low detection limit and good selectivity due to synergetic effect of CNT fiber and CuO NPs. Based on the unique property of CNT fiber, CuO NPs were provide large surface area, enhanced electrocatalytic activity, efficient electron transport property. Therefore, it is expected to develop high performance flexible electrode materials using various nanomaterials.

Measurement and removal of a cerenkov light in a plastic optical fiber to detect a scintillating light (섬광검출을 위한 플라스틱광섬유에서의 체렌코프 빛 측정 및 제거)

  • Cho, Dong-Hyun;Jang, Kyoung-Won;Yoo, Wook-Jae;Shin, Sang-Hun;Lee, Bong-So;Park, Byung-Gi;Cho, Hyo-Sung;Kim, Sin
    • Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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    • v.17 no.2
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    • pp.100-105
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    • 2008
  • The objectives of this study are to measure and to remove Cerenkov lights generated in a fiber-optic radiation sensor by a charge-coupled device. we have fabricated a fiber-optic radiation sensor which comprises an organic scintillator, a plastic optical fiber and a charge-coupled device. Charge-coupled device as a light measuring tool has many advantages which are easy in multi-dimensional measurements, high spatial resolution and relatively low cost.

Development of Fiber Optic BOTDA Sensor for Intrusion Detection (침입탐지를 위한 광섬유 BOTDA 센서의 개발)

  • Kwon, Il-Bum;Kim, Chi-Yeop;Choi, Man-Yong;Yu, Jae-Wang
    • Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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    • v.10 no.3
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    • pp.163-172
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    • 2001
  • Fiber optic BOTDA (Brillouin Optical Time Domain Analysis) sensor was developed to be able to detect intrusion effect through several ten kilometer optical fiber. Fiber optic BOTDA sensor was constructed with 1 laser diode and 2 electro-optic modulators. The intrusion detection experiment was peformed by the strain inducing set-up installed on an optical table to simulating an intrusion effect. In the result of this experiment, the intrusion effect was well detected as the distance resolution of 3 m through the fiber length of about 4.81 km during 1.5 seconds.

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Linear Interrogation of Distributed Fiber Grating Temperature Sensor Network using a Fabry-Perot ITU Filter (Fabry-Perot ITU 필터의 기준파장을 이용한 분배형 광섬유 격자 온도센서의 선형복조)

  • Park, Hyoung-Jun;Song, Min-Ho
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Illuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers
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    • v.21 no.7
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    • pp.54-60
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    • 2007
  • We constructed a fiber-optic temperature sensor system using a sensor array with 15 fiber Bragg gratings for distributed temperature monitoring in electrical power systems. A polynomial fitting algorithm was used to compensate the nonlinear action of the MEMS tuneable wavelength filter used for Bragg wavelength demodulation Fixed passband wavelengths from a Fabry-Perot ITU filter were used as reference wavelengths for the fitting algorithm which obtained constant accuracy regardless of the wavelength scanning range and frequency. About 0.18[%] of linearity error compared to reference thermocouple thermometer has been obtained in the preliminary experimental results.

Deformation Measuring of Tensegrity Structure by Optical Fiber Bragg Grating Sensor (광섬유 브래그 격자 센서를 이용한 텐서그리티 구조물의 변형 계측)

  • Lee, Seung-Jae
    • Journal of Korean Association for Spatial Structures
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    • v.8 no.6
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    • pp.95-100
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    • 2008
  • The object of this paper is to verify possible to monitor the deformation of cable in the tensegrity structure. Also, always monitoring system of tensegrity structure using Fiber Bragg Grating Sensor is described. We carry out experiments with measuring deformation of cable in the tensegrity structure based on loading conditions. In the result of experiment, the Fiber Bragg Grating Sensors shows accurate response to the loading conditions. Therefore, we can make sure the possibility of Fiber Bragg Grating Sensor in health monitoring of the cable structure like tensegrity structure.

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