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MEASUREMENT SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
卷 13, 期 10, 页码 1523-1534出版社
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0957-0233/13/10/303
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plastic optical fibre (POF); segmented POF sensor; strain sensors; smart structures; intensity modulation
This paper reports the use of a low cost, intensity-based plastic optical fibre sensor for curvature and strain measurements in samples subjected to flexural and tensile loading conditions respectively. This simple and robust sensor exhibits a high signal-to-noise ratio and excellent repeatability, rendering the system cost effective for operation in harsh environments. In addition, this inexpensive system offers a signal linearity and signal stability comparable to that of an in-fibre Bragg grating sensor and other more sophisticated optical fibre sensor systems. Test results have shown that the sensor exhibits a highly linear response to axial strains of up to 1.2% and bending strains up to 0.7% offering a strain resolution of up to 20 microstrain. Findings from a series of cyclic tests have demonstrated that the sensor response is highly repeatable, exhibiting only a very small amount of hysteresis. The results also highlight the possibility of using the sensor for monitoring strain on either the tensile or compressive side/region of a beam subjected to flexural loading.
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