General information
- We are using fibre optic sensors for the monitoring of civil infrastructure objects since 2001
- So far we have embedded more than 70 km of sensing cable into different types of objects
- We have successfully applied fibre optic sensors for the monitoring of bridges, tunnels, shafts, pipelines, ships, piles, anchors, beams etc.
Research topics
- Development of calibration facilities
- Sensor development
- Long term stability investigations
- Optimal sensor mounting
- Modelling of sensor data
- System identification
Applications
- Monitoring of strain and temperature within objects
- Crack detection and quantification
- Localization and identification of static and dynamic impacts
Laboratory
- Calibration of point sensors (SOFO sensors)
- Calibration of quasi-distributed sensors (fiber bragg gratings, FBG)
- Calibration of distributed strain sensors (Brillouin and Rayleigh sensors)
- Calibration of distributed acoustic sensors (DAS)
- more information about the calibration facility is available here
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