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EnglishIn the following we present a low-cost optical system for cracks evolution monitoring. The transducer principle is based on the variation of light transmitted between two facing fibers with their axial distance, exploiting the unique light-collecting capabilities of large-core polymer optical fibers. The characterization shows that the working range of the transducer is up to 3.5cm, with a resolution of 10$m and a repeatability of 5$m. With our current custom-developed control unit, up to four transducers can be arranged to provide a multi-axial displacement sensor or to simultaneously monitor four points for distributed sensing. A closed-loop light modulation/detection scheme is implemented to reduce the environmental noise sensitivity. The control unit is interfaced to a PC via USB port or via GSM/GPRS modem to automatically send periodical reports of the measurements and to issue warnings in case of displacements above a given threshold. Extensive tests in an environmental chamber have been carried out in order to extract calibration curves and to compensate for day-night and summer-winter temperature fluctuations.
Plastic Optical Fiber Displacement Sensor for Cracks Monitoring / Olivero, Massimo; Perrone, Guido; Vallan, Alberto; Abrate, Silvio. - STAMPA. - 347(2007), pp. 487-492. [10.4028/www.scientific.net/KEM.347.487]
| Titolo: | Plastic Optical Fiber Displacement Sensor for Cracks Monitoring | |
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| Data di pubblicazione: | 2007 | |
| Titolo del libro: | Key Engineering Materials | |
| Abstract: | In the following we present a low-cost optical system for cracks evolution monitoring. The transd...ucer principle is based on the variation of light transmitted between two facing fibers with their axial distance, exploiting the unique light-collecting capabilities of large-core polymer optical fibers. The characterization shows that the working range of the transducer is up to 3.5cm, with a resolution of 10$m and a repeatability of 5$m. With our current custom-developed control unit, up to four transducers can be arranged to provide a multi-axial displacement sensor or to simultaneously monitor four points for distributed sensing. A closed-loop light modulation/detection scheme is implemented to reduce the environmental noise sensitivity. The control unit is interfaced to a PC via USB port or via GSM/GPRS modem to automatically send periodical reports of the measurements and to issue warnings in case of displacements above a given threshold. Extensive tests in an environmental chamber have been carried out in order to extract calibration curves and to compensate for day-night and summer-winter temperature fluctuations. | |
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