구조물 이상 탐지를 위해 외력에 의한 광섬유의 모드변환을 이용한 새로운 광섬유 센서를 고안하고 제작하였다. 이러한 광섬유 센서는 민감도가 매우 좋으며, 크기가 작고, 전자파에 매우 둔감한 장점들이 있다. 이 센서는 적외선영역에서의 단일모드 광섬유와 635nm의 레이저 다이오드로 구성하였기 때문에 광섬유의 끝단에서의 횡모드는 가우시안 분포가 아닌 다른 형태의 횡모드 형태가 생긴다. 이 광섬유 중간을 구조물에 부착한 후, 구조물에 외력을 인가하면 광섬유 횡모드의 분포 변화가 생기고, 이를 감지함으로써 구조물 이상 유무를 판독할 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 광섬유 센서를 부착한 알루미늄 보를 변형시킴으로써 광섬유 센서의 횡모드 변화를 조사하였다. 이 실험결과 구조물의 이상상태를 감지할 적당한 신호를 얻을 수 있었으며, 구조물의 이상유무를 측정할 수 있는 광섬유 센서로의 가능성을 확인할 수 있었다.

A monitoring technique of ground anchor force is now studying by measuring the strains distributed on a bearing plate. These distributed strains are measured by a fiber optic OFDR (Optical Frequency Domain Reflectometer) sensor. A sensing optical fiber was attached on the bearing plate at the two radial locations and tested by a universal test machine. The anchor forces can be calculated from the differences of these two trains.

This paper presents the measurement of earth anchor tension using fiber optic OFDR sensor. Fiber optic OFDR sensor was configurated with tunable laser source, APD with polarization beam splitter and high speed DAQ system. Strains of pressure plate and anchor head were measured and compared using strain gage and fiber optic OFDR sensor. Fiber optic OFDR sensor signal showed linear increase in both tension and compression direction as tensional force increase. This results shows the capability of fiber optic OFDR sensor for monitoring earth anchor tension.

Distributed optical fiber sensors have been developed to detect the occurrence of structural anomalies such as excessive stresses, cracks, and leaks at arbitrary locations in the facility. In this paper, we demonstrate fiber optic OFDR (Optical Frequency Domian Reflectometry) sensor to measure strain and temperature through the sensing optical fiber. A PVC pipe was prepared to show the strain measurement performance with a sensing optical fiber attached on the pipe. Also, a temperature test was performed with a sensing optical fiber located in a temperature chamber. In the results, this sensor can operate to resolve 14.2 micro strain and 1.62 degree temperature at the condition of 5 cm spatial resolution.