Health monitoring for subway station structure by fiber Bragg grating sensors

Yao Zhou; Yuan-Feng Wang; Bing Han; Zhi Zhou

doi:10.1117/12.775560

7 April 2008 Health monitoring for subway station structure by fiber Bragg grating sensors

Yao Zhou, Yuan-Feng Wang, Bing Han, Zhi Zhou

Proceedings Volume 6933, Smart Sensor Phenomena, Technology, Networks, and Systems 2008; 693316 (2008) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.775560
Event: SPIE Smart Structures and Materials + Nondestructive Evaluation and Health Monitoring, 2008, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

Fiber Bragg grating (FBG) sensors hold a great deal of potential for structural monitoring because of their high sensitivity and exceptional stability for long-term monitoring. FBG sensors have been applied to sense a number of physical measurands including strain, temperature, pressure etc. These applications are based on the same principle, i.e. the measurement of Bragg wavelength shift caused by the measurands. The characters and principle of FBG sensors have been introduced in detail. The relative experiment is done. The results show that FBG sensors have high sensitivity and long-term stability. It is feasible to use the sensors to the structural health monitoring (SHM). Cement hydration produces heat, which may provoke important temperature rises in massive structures. Such a high temperature may be a factor for cracking during the cooling phase. Thus, it is important to be able to calculate and control the heat to be produced by a given concrete at the mixture-proportioning stage. Theory of heat of hydration is also introduced in this paper. FBG sensors have been applied successfully in health monitoring for Guomao subway station structure. Compared with results measured by vibrating wire sensors and computed by finite element method, the monitoring results show temperature and strains can be accurately measured by FBG sensors. It is convenient to study on heat of hydration of massive concrete and guide structural design.

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Yao Zhou, Yuan-Feng Wang, Bing Han, and Zhi Zhou "Health monitoring for subway station structure by fiber Bragg grating sensors", Proc. SPIE 6933, Smart Sensor Phenomena, Technology, Networks, and Systems 2008, 693316 (7 April 2008); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.775560

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