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Field-Deployable Fiber Optic Sensor System for Structural Health Monitoring of Steel Girder Highway Bridges
Structural health monitoring of highway bridges is a vital but currently challenging aspect of infrastructure engineering due to the number of sensors required, power requirements, and harsh environmental conditions. The purpose of this study is to develop a structural health monitoring system using fiber optic sensors based on fiber Bragg gratings that addresses these issues and is field deployable. Prototype systems were installed on two steel girder bridges. The first bridge used sensors adhered to the web and flange. The second bridge used a flange-only array of mechanically mounted sensors. The results demonstrated the accuracy of the fiber Bragg grating sensors and indicated that fewer multiplexed fiber optic cables and loosely routed cables were needed to maintain signal integrity. Adhered sensors were prone to lose their bond due to the curing conditions in the field. The findings suggest that the proposed system may be best used in a hybrid deployment, where a diagnostic field test with conventional sensors is used to determine the baseline bridge response and fiber optic sensors are periodically installed for short-term monitoring.
Field-Deployable Fiber Optic Sensor System for Structural Health Monitoring of Steel Girder Highway Bridges
Structural health monitoring of highway bridges is a vital but currently challenging aspect of infrastructure engineering due to the number of sensors required, power requirements, and harsh environmental conditions. The purpose of this study is to develop a structural health monitoring system using fiber optic sensors based on fiber Bragg gratings that addresses these issues and is field deployable. Prototype systems were installed on two steel girder bridges. The first bridge used sensors adhered to the web and flange. The second bridge used a flange-only array of mechanically mounted sensors. The results demonstrated the accuracy of the fiber Bragg grating sensors and indicated that fewer multiplexed fiber optic cables and loosely routed cables were needed to maintain signal integrity. Adhered sensors were prone to lose their bond due to the curing conditions in the field. The findings suggest that the proposed system may be best used in a hybrid deployment, where a diagnostic field test with conventional sensors is used to determine the baseline bridge response and fiber optic sensors are periodically installed for short-term monitoring.
Field-Deployable Fiber Optic Sensor System for Structural Health Monitoring of Steel Girder Highway Bridges
Renxiang Lu (author) / Johnn Judd (author)
2022
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