Strain Monitoring During Construction of a Steel Box-Girder Bridge with Arrays of FIber Bragg Grating Sensors

Abstract

Field performance of arrays of wavelength division multiplexed (WDM) fiber Bragg grating strain sensors is presented. Data from two field tests, carried out in February 1998 and October 1998 on an in-construction box-girder bridge, are presented and compared to data obtained from arrays of conventional sensors, where possible. The results in this report represent one of the first extensive tests of WDM Bragg grating sensor arrays on real world infrastructure. The results show that most of the well known advantages of fiber optic sensors, for example smaller array size, electromagnetic immunity, versatile data sets, easy installation, built-in telemetry and high sensitivity can be realized in real world environments.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 30, 1999
Accession Number
ADA366512

Entities

People

  • Bruce Danver
  • Bryan Althouse
  • Gregg A. Johnson
  • Michael D Todd
  • Sandeep T. Vohra

Organizations

  • United States Naval Research Laboratory

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Bragg Gratings
  • Bridges
  • Construction
  • Construction Materials
  • Data Sets
  • Detection
  • Detectors
  • Environment
  • Fiber Bragg Gratings
  • Field Tests
  • Geometry
  • Girder Bridges
  • Girders
  • Infrastructure
  • Measurement
  • Monitoring
  • Telemetry

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  • Facility/Structural Engineering.
  • Integrated Circuit Design and Technology.
  • Optical Fiber Sensing and Electromagnetic Propagation.