Experimental validation of fiber Bragg grating sensors for steel girder strain characterization

Juan Echevarria; Cesar Jauregui; Antonio Quintela; Miguel A. Rodriguez; Roberto Garcia; Juan A. Polanco; Isidro Carrascal; Jose Miguel Lopez-Higuera

doi:10.1117/12.472628

27 June 2002 Experimental validation of fiber Bragg grating sensors for steel girder strain characterization

Juan Echevarria, Cesar Jauregui, Antonio Quintela, Miguel A. Rodriguez, Roberto Garcia, Juan A. Polanco, Isidro Carrascal, Jose Miguel Lopez-Higuera

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Proceedings Volume 4694, Smart Structures and Materials 2002: Smart Sensor Technology and Measurement Systems; (2002) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.472628
Event: SPIE's 9th Annual International Symposium on Smart Structures and Materials, 2002, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

Although several Fiber Bragg Grating (FBG) based transducers have been successfully applied to the measurement of strain and temperature on civil engineering applications, important research work must be done to obtain transducers able to be used out of the laboratory. One of these research topics are the study of good interfaces between the optical fiber and the structural part to be measured. In this work a wide range of fixing techniques and interfaces have been investigated for fiber Bragg grating based transducers. Several transducers were constructed and fixed to a steel girder. Conventional strain gauges and professional displacement metering devices was added to the test specimen to make comparisons. A complete characterization setup using a laboratory test machine to test the transducers was designed. The test included several static and dynamic cycles and was applied to the steel girder while all the transducers were monitorized simultaneously. Results obtained with traditional and with the optical fiber mentioned technologies show a very good agreement.

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Juan Echevarria, Cesar Jauregui, Antonio Quintela, Miguel A. Rodriguez, Roberto Garcia, Juan A. Polanco, Isidro Carrascal, and Jose Miguel Lopez-Higuera "Experimental validation of fiber Bragg grating sensors for steel girder strain characterization", Proc. SPIE 4694, Smart Structures and Materials 2002: Smart Sensor Technology and Measurement Systems, (27 June 2002); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.472628

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