Cross-sectional irregularities such as eccentricity are an important problem for pipe and tubing infrastructure. Recent work by the authors shows that such axially extended pipe irregularities can cause confinement and feature-guiding of lower order ultrasonic guided waves. In this paper, we demonstrate a technique to monitor such irregularities in pipes by detecting the feature-guided waves using fiber Bragg grating sensors. Our experimental results are in good agreement with the results reported in elastic wave literature.
Feature-guided waves (FGW) have emerged as a promising technique for structural health monitoring as they are well confined in local features such as bends and welds. In this paper, we propose and demonstrate a novel method for identifying defects in 90 ̊ transverse bent structures through FGW detection using fiber Bragg gratings. Our experimental results are in excellent agreement with results predicted using 3D-Finite Element (FE) simulations of the bent structure.
We demonstrate the use of etched fiber Bragg gratings for sensing refractive index in the range of 1.350-1.453.
Experiments are carried out using FBGs with different etch depths and their relative performances are compared.
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