A spectral profile multiplexed FBG sensor network with application to strain measurement in a Kevlar woven fabric

Guodong Guo; Drew Hackney; Mark Pankow; Kara Peters

doi:10.1117/12.2260114

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12 April 2017 A spectral profile multiplexed FBG sensor network with application to strain measurement in a Kevlar woven fabric

Guodong Guo, Drew Hackney, Mark Pankow, Kara Peters

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Proceedings Volume 10168, Sensors and Smart Structures Technologies for Civil, Mechanical, and Aerospace Systems 2017; 101681J (2017) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2260114
Event: SPIE Smart Structures and Materials + Nondestructive Evaluation and Health Monitoring, 2017, Portland, Oregon, United States

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A spectral profile division multiplexed fiber Bragg grating (FBG) sensor network is described in this paper. The unique spectral profile of each sensor in the network is identified as a distinct feature to be interrogated. Spectrum overlap is allowed under working conditions. Thus, a specific wavelength window does not need to be allocated to each sensor as in a wavelength division multiplexed (WDM) network. When the sensors are serially connected in the network, the spectrum output is expressed through a truncated series. To track the wavelength shift of each sensor, the identification problem is transformed to a nonlinear optimization problem, which is then solved by a modified dynamic multi-swarm particle swarm optimizer (DMS-PSO). To demonstrate the application of the developed network, a network consisting of four FBGs was integrated into a Kevlar woven fabric, which was under a quasi-static load imposed by an impactor head. Due to the substantial radial strain in the fabric, the spectrums of different FBGs were found to overlap during the loading process. With the developed interrogating method, the overlapped spectrum would be distinguished thus the wavelength shift of each sensor can be monitored.

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Guodong Guo, Drew Hackney, Mark Pankow, and Kara Peters "A spectral profile multiplexed FBG sensor network with application to strain measurement in a Kevlar woven fabric", Proc. SPIE 10168, Sensors and Smart Structures Technologies for Civil, Mechanical, and Aerospace Systems 2017, 101681J (12 April 2017); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2260114

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