Functionality enhancement of industrialized optical fiber sensors and system developed for full-scale pavement monitoring.
Pavements always play a predominant role in transportation. Health monitoring of pavements is becoming more and more significant, as frequently suffering from cracks, rutting, and slippage renders them prematurely out of service. Effective and reliable sensing elements are thus in high demand to make prognosis on the mechanical properties and occurrence of damage to pavements. Therefore, in this paper, various types of functionality enhancement of industrialized optical fiber sensors for pavement monitoring are developed, with the corresponding operational principles clarified in theory and the performance double checked by basic experiments. Furthermore, a self-healing optical fiber sensing network system is adopted to accomplish full-scale monitoring of pavements. The application of optical fiber sensors assembly and self-healing network system in pavement has been carried out to validate the feasibility. It has been proved that the research in this article provides a valuable method and meaningful guidance for the integrity monitoring of civil structures, especially pavements.
School of Civil Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China. wanghuaping1128@sina.cn.
Huaping
H
Wang
Department of Transportation and Logistics, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China. liuwanqiu@dlut.edu.cn.
Wanqiu
W
Liu
School of Civil Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China. hejianping_hit@163.com.
Jianping
J
He
Department of Transportation and Logistics, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China. 18940920128@163.com.
Xiaoying
X
Xing
Department of Transportation and Logistics, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China. cdd1017@163.com.
Dandan
D
Cao
School of Civil Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China. xipeng1004@126.com.
Xipeng
X
Gao
School of Civil Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China. hao987129688@sina.com.
Xiaowei
X
Hao
School of Civil Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China. chenghwdy@126.com.
Hongwei
H
Cheng
School of Civil Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China. zhouzhi@dlut.edu.cn.
Zhi
Z
Zhou