Fiber-optic strain sensor system with temperature compensation for arch bridge condition monitoring

IEEE Sensors Journal

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1470-1476

  Mokhtar, M R ^a   Owens, K ^c   Kwasny, J ^c   Taylor, S E ^c   Basheer, P A M ^c   Cleland, D ^c   Bai, Y ^c   Sonebi, M ^c   Davis, G ^c   Gupta, A ^d   Hogg, I ^d   Bell, B ^e   Doherty, W ^f   McKeague, S ^f   Moore, D ^g   Greeves, K ^g   Sun, T ^b   Grattan, K T V ^b  

^a MULTIMEDIA UNIVERSITY   (Malaysia)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^d Macrete Ireland Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^e NETWORK RAIL   (United Kingdom)

^f Creagh Concrete   (United Kingdom)

^g ARUP   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fiber Bragg grating; fiber optic sensor; sensor packaging; strain and temperature discrimination

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION PROCESS; CIVIL ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS; FIBER GRATINGS; GRATING COMPONENTS; GRATING-BASED SENSORS; MEASUREMENT CONDITIONS; MONITORING SYSTEM; RAPID METHOD; SENSOR PACKAGING; SENSOR SYSTEMS; STRAIN SENSOR SYSTEMS; STRUCTURAL MONITORING APPLICATIONS; TEMPERATURE COEFFICIENT; TEMPERATURE COMPENSATION; TEMPERATURE VARIATION;

ARCH BRIDGES; CIVIL ENGINEERING; CONCRETE CONSTRUCTION; CONDITION MONITORING; FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS; FIBER OPTIC SENSORS; FIBERS; LOADING; POLYPROPYLENES; STRAIN MEASUREMENT; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION;

SENSORS;

EID: 84859881710     PISSN: 1530437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2011.2172991     Document Type: Article

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