Proof of Concept for Temperature and Strain Measurements With Fiber Bragg Gratings Embedded in Supercontainers Designed for Nuclear Waste Storage
| Autor: | Andrei Gusarov, Alexey Faustov, Philippe Van Marcke, Karima Chah, Bart Craeye, Lou Areias, Eric Coppens, Didier Raymaekers, Damien Kinet, Ioannis Troullinos, Patrice Mégret |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Předmět: |
Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Materials science Fabrication Carbon steel 0211 other engineering and technologies Radioactive waste 02 engineering and technology engineering.material 021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology 7. Clean energy Casting Stress (mechanics) Nuclear Energy and Engineering Fiber Bragg grating Thermocouple 021105 building & construction Electromagnetic shielding engineering Electrical and Electronic Engineering Composite material 0210 nano-technology Engineering sciences. Technology |
| Zdroj: | IEEE transactions on nuclear science IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science |
| ISSN: | 1558-1578 0018-9499 |
| DOI: | 10.1109/tns.2016.2555337 |
| Popis: | The Belgian Agency for Radioactive Waste and Enriched Fissile Materials (ONDRAF/NIRAS) is developing a conceptual design for a supercontainer made of concrete and carbon steel for the post-conditioning of high-level nuclear waste prior to disposal in a geological repository site. This supercontainer should be instrumented to follow the temperature and strain evolution over time during and after the fabrication process. This paper shows that it is possible to embed bare fiber Bragg gratings in the supercontainer concrete to monitor in situ temperature and strain. The reason for choosing bare fibers, despite their known fragile nature, was to optimize the contact between the fibers and the concrete. Due to the simultaneous temperature and strain sensitivity of the fiber Bragg gratings, some sensors were also installed in a protective shielding consisting of plastic or aluminum to isolate them from effects of stress. This makes it also possible to extract both temperature and strain from the measured Bragg wavelength shifts. Moreover, the protective shielding also provides mechanical protection to avoid fiber breakage during concrete casting. The preliminary results of temperature closely agree with measurements obtained from thermocouples located near the fibers for validation purposes. Finally, the use of shielding in some of the fibers allowed to estimate strain levels in the concrete. |
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