Current developments in fiber Bragg grating sensors and their applications

Venu Gopal Madhav Annamdas; Yaowen Yang; Hui Liu

doi:10.1117/12.775715

8 April 2008 Current developments in fiber Bragg grating sensors and their applications

Venu Gopal Madhav Annamdas, Yaowen Yang, Hui Liu

Proceedings Volume 6932, Sensors and Smart Structures Technologies for Civil, Mechanical, and Aerospace Systems 2008; 69320D (2008) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.775715
Event: SPIE Smart Structures and Materials + Nondestructive Evaluation and Health Monitoring, 2008, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

Whatever may be the material used to build the engineering structures, they are bound to undergo damage at some point in their lifetime. The damage could develop because of continuous usage, degradation, environmental factors, earthquakes or man-made disasters. Structural health monitoring (SHM) has emerged as an important area that has attracted intensive research attention in the recent time. Smart materials like piezoceramics (e.g. lead zirconate titanate or PZT) and fibre optical sensors (FOSs) based effective SHM tools are rapidly developing. Especially, the FOSs offer great potential as monitoring sensors due to their small size, immunity to electromagnetic interference, robustness and survivability in harsh environment. Conventional FOSs use phase modulation techniques for sensing. In spite of the above advantages, they are dependent heavily on source intensity fluctuations and coupling loses. However the fibre Bragg grating (FBG) sensors developed from FOSs are immune to source intensity fluctuations, thus addressing some potential problems of the conventional FOSs. This paper presents a review on the current development of FBG based monitoring techniques and their applications.

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Venu Gopal Madhav Annamdas, Yaowen Yang, and Hui Liu "Current developments in fiber Bragg grating sensors and their applications", Proc. SPIE 6932, Sensors and Smart Structures Technologies for Civil, Mechanical, and Aerospace Systems 2008, 69320D (8 April 2008); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.775715

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