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Estimation of load redistribution on a cable-stayed bridge using a combination of sensing techniques
An array of more than 60 sensors has been installed on the pier of San Giorgio Levante in the Genoa harbor. These sensors allow the measurement of the pier displacements during the dredging works, ship docking and in the long term. The sensors measure the curvature changes in the horizontal and vertical planes and allow a localization of settlements with a spatial resolution of 10 m over a total length of 400 m. The sensors can be measured automatically and remotely. This paper presents the sensor installation and the results from the first monitoring period..
One or the main challenges in this new machine resides in the design and production of the superconducting dipoles used to steer the particles around the 27 km underground tunnel. These so-called cryodipoles are composed of an external vacuum tube and an insert, appropriately named the cold mass, that contains the particle tubes, the superconducting coil and will be cooled using superfluid Helium to 1.9 K. The particle beam must be placed inside the magnetic field with a sub-millimeter accuracy, this requires in turn that the relative displacements between the vacuum tube and the cold-mass must be monitored with accuracy.
Due to the extreme condition environmental conditions (the displacement measurement must be made in vacuum and between two points with a temperature difference of more than 200°C) no adequate existing monitoring system was found for this application. It was therefore decided to develop an optical sensor suitable for this application.
This contribution describes the development of this novel sensor and the first measurements performed on the LHC cryodipoles.
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