Monitoring geotechnical structures and providing real-time early warning is a key measure to mitigate the impacts of disasters (slope slip, subsidence, dam deformation, bridge settlement, etc.). The fiber Bragg grating (FBG) flexible sensor, developed by the combination of flexible material and an FBG sensor, is widely used in geotechnical engineering health monitoring due to its excellent performance.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe accurate measurement of slope displacement profiles using a fiber Bragg grating flexible sensor is limited due to the influence of accumulative measurement errors. The measurement errors vary with the deformation forms of the sensor, which dramatically affects the measurement accuracy of the slope displacement profiles. To tackle the limitations and improve the measurement precision of displacement profiles, a segmental correction method based on strain increments clustering was proposed.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe measurement accuracy of the intelligent flexible morphological sensor based on fiber Bragg grating (FBG) structure was limited in the application of geotechnical engineering and other fields. In order to improve the precision of intellisense for displacement, an FBG implantable flexible morphological sensor was designed in this study, and the classification morphological correction method based on conjugate gradient method and extreme learning machine (ELM) algorithm was proposed. This study utilized finite element simulations and experiments, in order to analyze the feasibility of the proposed method.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe division process used in a DFB diode laser-based optical gas sensor was studied to improve the immunity to laser power variation. Residual amplitude modulation (RAM) in wavelength modulation spectroscopy (WMS) detection was eliminated by intensity normalization using a division process. As a result the detected harmonic signals showed a significant improvement in line shape.
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