Journal
SENSORS
Volume 21, Issue 21, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/s21217032
Keywords
optical fibers; distributed sensing; remote monitoring; early warning systems
Funding
- MIUR PON R&I 2014-2020 Program (project MITIGO) - Italian Ministry of University and Research [ARS01_00964]
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This paper presents the results of monitoring tunnel deformations using a distributed optical fiber strain sensor based on stimulated Brillouin scattering. The study found that the deformation profiles of the tunnel are characterized by strain peaks at structural joints, and there is an increase in the time rate of fiber deformation during periods of accelerated landslide movements in the surrounding area.
This paper shows the results of the monitoring of the deformations of a tunnel, carried out using a distributed optical fiber strain sensor based on stimulated Brillouin scattering. The artificial tunnel of the national railway crosses the accumulation zone of an active landslide, the Varco d'Izzo earthflow, in the southern Italian Apennines. Severely damaged by the landslide movements, the tunnel was demolished and rebuilt in 1992 as a reinforced concrete box flanked by two deep sheet pile walls. In order to detect the onset of potentially dangerous strains of the tunnel structure and follow their time trend, the internal deformations of the tunnel are also monitored by a distributed fiber-optic strain sensor since 2016. The results of the monitoring activity show that the deformation profiles are characterized by strain peaks in correspondence of the structural joints. Furthermore, the elongation of the fiber strands crossing the joints is consistent with the data derived by other measurement systems. Experiments revealed an increase in the time rate of the fiber deformation in the first and last part of the monitoring period when the inclinometers of the area also recorded an acceleration in the landslide movements.
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