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Publikováno v:
Smart Materials and Structures. 4:20-30
Carbon fiber based composite material is of considerable interest for the replacement of steel in large concrete structures, such as bridges, where corrosion is a serious problem. A new two-span concrete highway bridge built in the city of Calgary in
Autor:
Serge M. Melle, A.T. Alavie, Shawn E. Karr, Kexing Liu, Raymond M. Measures, Trenton G. Coroy
Publikováno v:
IEEE Photonics Technology Letters. 5:263-266
The development of a fiber laser sensor system which permits efficient interrogation of Bragg grating sensors is reported. A tunable erbium doped fiber laser which utilizes a broadband mirror and an intracore Bragg grating reflector in side-pump conf
Autor:
Shang Yuan Huang, Raymond M. Measures, R. Lee, Myo Myint Ohn, Trenton G. Coroy, A.T. Alavie, Shawn E. Karr, Robert Maaskant
Publikováno v:
Proceedings of LEOS '93.
A number of major challenges face the practical implementation of Smart Structure technology. One of the most important is concerned with the communication link between the structure's resident fiber optic sensing system and the support structure. In
Autor:
Shawn E. Karr, A. Tino Alavie, Shang Yuan Huang, Robert Maaskant, Myo Myint Ohn, Raymond M. Measures
Publikováno v:
SPIE Proceedings.
Corrosion of steel within bridges and other large concrete structures has become a serious problem and consequently there is growing interest in replacing the steel within such structures with carbon fiber based composite materials. The first highway
Autor:
Derek J. Glennie, C. Wade, Sami H. Rizkalla, Raymond M. Measures, Shawn E. Karr, Robert Maaskant, G. Tadros, Myo Myint Ohn, A. Tino Alavie
Publikováno v:
SPIE Proceedings.
The installation of a fiber optic Bragg grating strain sensor network in a new road bridge is described. These sensors are attached to prestressing tendons embedded in prefabricated concrete girders. Three types of prestressing tendons are being moni
Publikováno v:
SPIE Proceedings.
An area of concern for erbium doped Fiber Laser Sensors (FLS) has been the issue of `cost per sensor'. To address this issue and promote the FLS as a viable sensor system, techniques for multiplexing intracore Bragg gratings in serial and parallel fi
Autor:
Shang Yuan Huang, G. Fishbein, Robert Maaskant, Derek J. Glennie, Shawn E. Karr, Raymond M. Measures, R. Lee, Myo Myint Ohn, A. Tino Alavie
Publikováno v:
SPIE Proceedings.
A multichannel Bragg grating fiber laser demodulation system capable of interrogating four or more Bragg grating sensors for strain and temperature monitoring has been designed and developed. System configuration and various practical considerations
Autor:
Derek J. Glennie, Raymond M. Measures, C. Wade, Myo Myint Ohn, Shawn E. Karr, Robert Maaskant, G. Tadros, A. Guha-Thakurta, Sami H. Rizkalla, A. Tino Alavie, Shang Yuan Huang
Publikováno v:
SPIE Proceedings.
A portable, rugged, and compact 4-channel Bragg grating fiber laser sensor demodulation system was developed for interrogating an array of 20-intracore Bragg grating sensors that we embedded within several of the concrete girders used to support the
Publikováno v:
SPIE Proceedings.
An intracore Bragg grating and a broadband reflector are used as cavity end mirrors of a tunable Erbium-doped fiber laser where the Bragg grating serves the dual purpose of the tuning element and the sensor. This fiber laser sensor (FLS) is integrate
Publikováno v:
SPIE Proceedings.
practical applications because of the non-absolute nature of the measuce-ment. As well, lack of common-mode rejection does not permit the accu-rate measurement of low-frequency strains. Another method uses a passive,wavelength demodulation system (WD