Design and Testing of a Large-Scale Shape-Monitoring Sensor Based on Fiber-Bragg-Grating Sensing Technique for Pavement Structure
Publication: Journal of Transportation Engineering, Part A: Systems
Volume 143, Issue 5
Abstract
On-site pavement structural-performance monitoring is a challenging task. High accuracy, large coverage, and good reliability of the embedded sensors are the key factors to ensure monitoring efficiency. Most of the sensors for pavement structures are currently pointwise. This paper introduces a shape-measurement sensor based on a fiber-Bragg-grating (FBG) sensing technique for pavement structure, which can provide large-scale layer shape measurement using one FBG sensing element. It can bear the high compaction force and high temperatures during pavement construction. The core sensing element can be replaced after embedding and therefore can fulfill the lifecycle performance-monitoring requirement. The sensor can be applied for long-term pavement rutting or substructure-settlement monitoring. Different kinds of lab tests and numerical modeling have been carried out to study the performance of the proposed sensors. The proposed sensor has also been embedded in a real highway structure and the monitoring data have demonstrated its effectiveness for future large-scale practical application.
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Acknowledgments
This paper was supported by China’s National High-Tech R&D (863) Program (Grant No. 2014AA110401).
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Journal of Transportation Engineering, Part A: Systems
Volume 143 • Issue 5 • May 2017
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Received: Mar 23, 2016
Accepted: Sep 28, 2016
Published ahead of print: Feb 2, 2017
Published online: Feb 3, 2017
Published in print: May 1, 2017
Discussion open until: Jul 3, 2017
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