Photonic Sensors, Volume. 4, Issue 2, 173(2014)

Rail Expansion Devices Monitored by FBG Sensors on an Urban Railway Viaduct

Weilai LI1、*, Jin PANG2, Xiaoshan LU2, and Jie LIU2
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  • 1National Engineering Lab of Fiber Optic Sensing Technology, Wuhan University of Technology, 122 Luoshi Road, Wuhan, 430070, China
  • 2Key Lab of Fiber Optic Sensing Technology and Information Processing, Wuhan University of Technology, 122 Luoshi Road, Wuhan, 430070, China
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    The fiber Bragg grating (FBG) sensing technology was used to monitor the situation of a crevice of the continuous beam joint and rails near rail expansion devices on a viaduct of the urban railway. The monitoring items consisted of the rail temperature, rail displacement, viaduct beam displacement, and strain of sliding rail in the rail expansion device section. The strain sensor was a prefabricate FBG strain gauge, the displacement sensor with different scales used an FBG stress ring, and the FBG of the temperature sensor was pre-drawn and fixed in a metal tube. Compensation sensors were used to balance environmental temperature changes. All FBGs were suspended adhered, therefore the chirped phenomenon of the FBG reflection peak was avoided, and the measurement accuracy was improved. The monitoring results matched to the manual test and theoretical estimation.

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    Weilai LI, Jin PANG, Xiaoshan LU, Jie LIU. Rail Expansion Devices Monitored by FBG Sensors on an Urban Railway Viaduct[J]. Photonic Sensors, 2014, 4(2): 173

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    Paper Information

    Received: Dec. 29, 2013

    Accepted: Mar. 8, 2014

    Published Online: Apr. 9, 2014

    The Author Email: LI Weilai (lwl@whut.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.1007/s13320-014-0163-6

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