Health monitoring of an Oregon historical bridge with fiber grating strain sensors

1999 ◽  
Author(s):  
John M. Seim ◽  
Eric Udd ◽  
Whitten L. Schulz ◽  
Harold M. Laylor
Keyword(s):  
Health Monitoring ◽  
Strain Sensors ◽  
Fiber Grating

Research on the Performance of Strain Sensors Applied to Bridges

2014 ◽  
Vol 875-877 ◽  
pp. 680-684
Author(s):  
Zhi Liu ◽  
Jing Liu ◽  
Shu Ri Cai
Keyword(s):  
Health Monitoring ◽  
Performance Test ◽  
Strain Sensor ◽  
Safety Monitoring ◽  
Strain Sensors ◽  
Great Role ◽  
Temperature Drift ◽  
Short Life ◽  
Test Analysis ◽  
Health Monitoring System

Strengthening safety monitoring of bridges during service time and improving the capability of emergency support have become the priority of the development of China’s present transportation system. Strain sensors play a great role in bridge detection and health monitoring system. In order to overcome disadvantages of traditional resistance strain sensors, such as big temperature drift, short life and inadaptability in the environment of low temperature and humidity, new arch strain sensors have been developed. This paper mainly discusses the structural and material characteristics of this sensor, as well as the performance test analysis of this strain sensor.

Area-Arrayed Graphene Nano-Ribbon-Base Strain Sensor

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ryohei Nakagawa ◽  
Zhi Wang ◽  
Ken Suzuki
Keyword(s):  
Chemical Vapor Deposition ◽  
Stress Concentration ◽  
Health Monitoring ◽  
Vapor Deposition ◽  
Strain Sensor ◽  
Chemical Vapor ◽  
High Sensitivity ◽  
Strain Sensors ◽  
Chemical Vapor Deposition Method ◽  
High Quality

Health monitoring devices using a strain sensor, which shows high sensitivity and large deformability, are strongly demanded due to further aging of society with fewer children. Conventional strain sensors, such as metallic strain gauges and semiconductive strain sensors, however, aren’t applicable to health monitoring because of their low sensitivity and deformability. In this study, fundamental design of area-arrayed graphene nano-ribbon (GNR) strain senor was proposed in order to fabricate next-generation strain sensor. The sensor was consisted of two sections, which are stress concentration section and stress detecting section. This structure can take full advantage of GNR’s properties. Moreover, high quality GNR fabrication process, which is one of the important process in the sensor, was developed by applying CVD (Chemical Vapor Deposition) method. Top-down approach was applied to fabricate the GNR. At first, in order to synthesize a high-quality graphene sheet, acetylene-based LPCVD (low pressure chemical vapor deposition) using a closed Cu foil was employed. After that, graphene was transferred silicon substrate and the quality was evaluated. The high quality graphene was transferred on the soft PDMS substrate and metallic electrodes were fabricated by applying MEMS technology. Area-arrayed fine pin structure was fabricated by using hard PDMS as a stress-concentration section. Finally, both sections were integrated to form a highly sensitive and large deformable pressure sensor. The strain sensitivity of the GNR-base sensor was also evaluated.

scholarly journals Wrinkle-Enabled Highly Stretchable Strain Sensors for Wide-Range Health Monitoring with a Big Data Cloud Platform

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (38) ◽  
pp. 43009-43017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jian Huang ◽  
Jian Zhou ◽  
Yangmei Luo ◽  
Gan Yan ◽  
Yi Liu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
Health Monitoring ◽  
Strain Sensors ◽  
Cloud Platform ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Highly Stretchable

scholarly journals Dynamic and quasi-static signal separation method for bridges under moving loads based on long-gauge FBG strain monitoring

2019 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 388-402
Author(s):  
Huaxi Lu ◽  
Zhicheng Gao ◽  
Bitao Wu ◽  
Zhenwei Zhou
Keyword(s):  
Health Monitoring ◽  
Strain Sensors ◽  
Separation Method ◽  
Signal Separation ◽  
Dynamic Monitoring ◽  
Static Strain ◽  
Strain Monitoring ◽  
Important Means ◽  
Vehicle Loads ◽  
Strain Signal

Structural health monitoring is an important means of obtaining the state information of bridges, and the extracted quasi-static strain signal can reflect the stress state of bridges directly. However, the strain signals acquired during the operation stage of bridges are dynamic, and the strain gauges used in the health monitoring system are short (no more than 10 cm), which means they are easily affected by small damage at the installation parts of bridges and thereby the monitoring signal abnormalities occur. A type of externally affixed long-gauge fiber strain gauge is used to monitor the health of bridges, and the dynamic and quasi-static signal separation method for long-gauge strain sensors is studied under different vehicle loads; at the same time, the dynamic monitoring performance of the long-gauge sensor is investigated in this paper. The quasi-static strain signal extracted from the dynamic macro-strain signal can be used to directly monitor the stress status of the bridge. The results show that the method proposed in this paper is feasible for extracting the quasi-static macro-strain from a dynamic long-gauge strain signal.

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