Acoustic emission detection with fiber optical sensors for dry cask storage health monitoring

Bin Lin; Jingjing Bao; Lingyu Yu; Victor Giurgiutiu

doi:10.1117/12.2219337

20 April 2016 Acoustic emission detection with fiber optical sensors for dry cask storage health monitoring

Bin Lin, Jingjing Bao, Lingyu Yu, Victor Giurgiutiu

Proceedings Volume 9803, Sensors and Smart Structures Technologies for Civil, Mechanical, and Aerospace Systems 2016; 98031H (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2219337
Event: SPIE Smart Structures and Materials + Nondestructive Evaluation and Health Monitoring, 2016, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States

Abstract

The increasing number, size, and complexity of nuclear facilities deployed worldwide are increasing the need to maintain readiness and develop innovative sensing materials to monitor important to safety structures (ITS). In the past two decades, an extensive sensor technology development has been used for structural health monitoring (SHM). Technologies for the diagnosis and prognosis of a nuclear system, such as dry cask storage system (DCSS), can improve verification of the health of the structure that can eventually reduce the likelihood of inadvertently failure of a component. Fiber optical sensors have emerged as one of the major SHM technologies developed particularly for temperature and strain measurements. This paper presents the development of optical equipment that is suitable for ultrasonic guided wave detection for active SHM in the MHz range. An experimental study of using fiber Bragg grating (FBG) as acoustic emission (AE) sensors was performed on steel blocks. FBG have the advantage of being durable, lightweight, and easily embeddable into composite structures as well as being immune to electromagnetic interference and optically multiplexed. The temperature effect on the FBG sensors was also studied. A multi-channel FBG system was developed and compared with piezoelectric based AE system. The paper ends with conclusions and suggestions for further work.

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Bin Lin, Jingjing Bao, Lingyu Yu, and Victor Giurgiutiu "Acoustic emission detection with fiber optical sensors for dry cask storage health monitoring", Proc. SPIE 9803, Sensors and Smart Structures Technologies for Civil, Mechanical, and Aerospace Systems 2016, 98031H (20 April 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2219337

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