Title
Fibre optic acoustic emission measurement technique for crack activity monitoring in civil engineering applications
Abstract
Fibre Bragg grating based acoustic emission measurement technique is employed to monitor crack activity in civil engineering structures and sites. The feasibility and effectiveness of using fibre optic methods for crack activity monitoring is demonstrated with three example cases (a) railway ballast breakage (b) cold crack monitoring in welding (c) crack activity monitoring in rock samples. The successful laboratory demonstration results of the method shows the potential of using fibre optic acoustic emission method to monitor crack activities that can ensure the structural integrity of civil engineering structures. This will lead further large scale testing and validation of the technique.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1109/SAS.2016.7479851
2016 IEEE Sensors Applications Symposium (SAS)
Keywords
Field
DocType
fibre Bragg grating,acoustic emussuion,crack activity railway ballast,cold cracks,rock samples
Optical fiber,Fiber Bragg grating,Ballast,Computer science,Civil engineering,Fiber gratings,Acoustic emission,Structural integrity,Welding
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
1
Authors
8
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ginu Rajan1123.85
Sagar Jinachandran200.68
Jiangtao Xi313134.75
Huijun Li452.24
Jayan S Vinod500.34
Tristan Moses600.34
Shivakumar Karekal700.34
B. Gangadhara Prusty822.49