Distributed Fiber Optic Shape Sensing of Concrete Structures

• Published in: Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) Vol. 21; no. 18; p. 6098
• Main Authors: Monsberger, Christoph M., Lienhart, Werner
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI AG 11.09.2021; MDPI
• Subjects: beam load testing; Bragg gratings; Cables; Civil engineering; civil structural health monitoring; Concrete; Concrete structures; Construction; Continuous fiber composites; Design; distributed fiber optic sensors; Fiber optics; Flaw detection; Infrastructure; Laboratories; Load tests; Localization; Sensors; Service life; shape sensing; Structural health monitoring; Temperature effects; Tunnel construction; tunnel lining segments; Tunnel linings

Civil structural health monitoring (CSHM) has become significantly more important within the last decades due to rapidly growing construction volume worldwide as well as aging infrastructure and longer service lifetimes of the structures. The utilization of distributed fiber optic sensing (DFOS) all...