Crack monitoring on concrete structures with distributed fiber optic sensors—Toward automated data evaluation and assessment

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Abstract

The ability to measure strains quasi-continuously with high spatial resolutionmakes distributed fiber optic sensing a promising technology for structuralhealth monitoring as it allows to locate and measure damages in concretestructures, such as cracks. Depending on whether the distributed fiber opticsensor (DFOS) is embedded into the concrete matrix or bonded to the rein-forcement, different approaches for crack width calculation exist. The high spa-tial resolution of DFOS quickly leads to a large amount of data, especially withtime continuous monitoring. Scalable, automated analysis approaches arerequired to handle such big data and to derive a gain in knowledge from themeasurements. Thus, in a first step, the PYTHON framework fosanalysis ispresented and made available to other researchers or monitoring specialists asfree software. The most important input parameters for crack width calculationare discussed for concrete strain and steel strain DFOS. Accurate crack moni-toring for a 4 m long reinforced concrete beam is demonstrated by using fosanalysis. The calculated crack widths are in good agreement with digi-tal image correlation measurements.

Details

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1465-1480
Number of pages16
JournalStructural Concrete
Volume25
Issue number2
Early online date20 Nov 2023
Publication statusPublished - Apr 2024
Peer-reviewedYes

External IDs

ORCID /0000-0002-2187-1652/work/147142645
ORCID /0000-0001-8735-1345/work/147142867
ORCID /0000-0002-3833-8424/work/147143061
Scopus 85163965758

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Keywords

  • crack monitoring, fiber optic sensing, automated data assessment, monitoring data, structural health monitoring, distributed fiber optic sensors, DFOS, crack monitoring, fiber optic sensing, automated data assessment, monitoring data, structural health monitoring, distributed fiber optic sensors, DFOS