Affiliation:
1. College of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Guangxi University, Nanning 530004, China
2. Guangxi Key Laboratory of Disaster Prevention and Engineering Safety, Nanning 530004, China
Abstract
According to current regulations, welding is strictly prohibited for prestressed and tension cables. In response, this article proposes the use of a portable spot-welding machine to spot weld steel strands. This method generates a small current during spot welding, with a voltage of only 3 V to 5 V, and does not damage the internal structure of the steel strand. To effectively monitor cable tension in cable-supported structures, a novel approach utilizing a chip-based, encapsulated spot-welded strain sensor was investigated. The strain sensing capability, temperature sensitivity, stress relaxation, and static load responses were investigated on the proposed smart steel strand cables with spot-welded strain sensors. The theoretical analyses and finite element simulations revealed that the strain transfer efficiency of the spot-welded strain sensor exceeded 96%. The experimental results demonstrated that the load-strain relationship of the smart steel strand cable had a fitting degree greater than 0.999, and the tension errors obtained under different loads were within 1.26%. The tension full capacity errors measured at different temperatures were generally within 1.0%. The relaxation rate of the smart steel strand cable after 120 h was 3.78% and reduced the sensor accuracy error by 3.97%. Thus, the proposed strain sensor equipped with a smart steel strand cable is suitable for use in long-term tension monitoring.
Funder
Guangxi Science and Technology Major Project of China
National Natural Science Foundation of China
Subject
Electrical and Electronic Engineering,Biochemistry,Instrumentation,Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics,Analytical Chemistry
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