Distributed strain and temperature measurement of a beam using fiber optic BOTDA sensor

Il-Bum Kwon; Chi-Yeop Kim; Man-Yong Choi

doi:10.1117/12.482682

18 August 2003 Distributed strain and temperature measurement of a beam using fiber optic BOTDA sensor

Il-Bum Kwon, Chi-Yeop Kim, Man-Yong Choi

Proceedings Volume 5057, Smart Structures and Materials 2003: Smart Systems and Nondestructive Evaluation for Civil Infrastructures; (2003) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.482682
Event: Smart Structures and Materials, 2003, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

In order to do continuous health monitoring of large structures, it is necessary that the distributed sensing of strain and temperature of the structures are to be measured. So, we present the strain and temperature measurement distributed on a beam using fiber optic BOTDA(Brillouin Optical Time Domain Analysis) sensor. Fiber optic BOTDA sensor has good performance of strain measurement. However, the signal of fiber optic BOTDA sensor is influenced by strain and temperature. Therefore, we applied an optical fiber on the beam as follows: one part of the fiber, which is sensitive the strain and the temperature, is bonded on the surface of the beam and another part of the fiber, which is only sensitive to the temperature, is located at the same position of the strain sensing fiber. Therefore, the strains can be determined from the strain sensing fiber with compensating the temperature from the temperature sensing fiber. These measured strains were compared with the strains from electrical strain gages. After temperature compensation, it was concluded that the strains from fiber optic BOTDA sensor had good agreements with those values of the conventional strain gages.

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Il-Bum Kwon, Chi-Yeop Kim, and Man-Yong Choi "Distributed strain and temperature measurement of a beam using fiber optic BOTDA sensor", Proc. SPIE 5057, Smart Structures and Materials 2003: Smart Systems and Nondestructive Evaluation for Civil Infrastructures, (18 August 2003); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.482682

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