Abstract
The article presents research on the performance of composite and monolithic sensors for distributed fibre optic sensing (DFOS). The introduction summarises the design of the sensors and the theoretical justification for such an approach. Lessons learned during monitoring cracked concrete are summarised to highlight what features of the DFOS tools are the most favourable from the crack analysis point of view. Later, the results from full-size laboratory concrete specimens working in a cracked state were presented and discussed in reference to conventional layered sensing cables. The research aimed to compare monolithic sensors and layered cables embedded in the same reinforced concrete elements, which is the main novelty. The performance of each DFOS nondestructive tool was investigated in the close vicinity of the cracks—both the new ones, opening within the tension zone, and the existing ones, closing within the compression zone. The qualitative (detection) and quantitative (widths estimation) crack analyses were performed and discussed. Finally, the examples of actual applications within concrete structures, including bridges, are presented with some examples of in situ results.
Subject
Electrical and Electronic Engineering,Biochemistry,Instrumentation,Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics,Analytical Chemistry
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