Journal
MAGAZINE OF CONCRETE RESEARCH
Volume 73, Issue 4, Pages 174-194Publisher
ICE PUBLISHING
DOI: 10.1680/jmacr.19.00185
Keywords
testing, apparatus & methods; non-destructive testing; structural analysis
Funding
- research agency CAPES -Brazilian Federal Agency for Support and Evaluation of Graduate Education [88881.127904/2016-01]
- Federal University of the Jequitinhonha and Mucuri Valleys (Brazil)
- Materials Testing Institute at the University of Stuttgart (Germany)
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This research briefly discusses the principle of FO sensing and its application in civil structures, as well as the latest research on SHM using FO sensors in concrete structures in recent decades.
Structural health monitoring (SHM) of civil engineering structures has been widely developed to increase safety and to provide cost-effective maintenance programmes. Although the current approaches of SHM systems using traditional single-point sensors - such as electric strain sensors, accelerometers and global positioning system-based sensors have appropriate measurement precision for SHM purposes, they present challenges when deployed in real-scale applications, given the limited number of possible points to assess structural behaviour and the harsh environmental conditions during operation. When it comes to reinforced-concrete structures, the development of health monitoring and damage identification presents further challenges, since this type of structure is affected by a variety of chemical, physical and mechanical degradation processes, has a heterogeneous composition and shows non-linear behaviour. On the other hand, fibre optic (FO) technology can provide integrated sensing along with extensive measurement lengths of high sensitivity, durability and stability, which makes it ideal for the SHM of concrete structures. In this paper, FO sensing principles and the different types of FO sensors for civil structure applications are briefly described and a stateof-the-art review of SHM applied to concrete structures using FO sensors in recent decades is presented.
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