Monitoring of corrosion in reinforced concrete structure using Bragg grating sensing

Corrosion in reinforced concrete structures is a major problem that seriously affects the service life of the structures. In order to detect rebar corrosion, a fiber optic corrosion sensor (FOCS) made of one fiber Bragg grating (FBG) sensor and twin steel rebar elements was designed and packaged up with concrete. Subsequently, a series of experiments were carried out to verify its feasibility. A constant current accelerated corrosion test was performed on five fiber optic corrosion sensors and the relationship between reflected wavelength change from the grating and the weight loss rate of rebar was obtained by the gravimetric weight loss method. The experiment shows that it is feasible to monitor the degree of corrosion of reinforced steel in reinforced concrete structures using FOCS. (C) 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.