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A Study on the Development of Optical-Fiber Water Leakage Sensing System

광파이버 누수센싱 시스템 개발에 관한 연구

  • Kim, Y.B. (Department of Mechanical System Engineering, PuKyong National University)
  • 김영복 (부경대학교 기계시스템공학과)
  • Received : 2012.08.23
  • Accepted : 2012.09.27
  • Published : 2012.12.31

Abstract

A multi purpose environmental monitoring system has been developed as a commercially available standard using the techniques which are FBG(Fiber Bragg Grating), Hetero-core spliced fiber optic sensor and etc, for the purposes of monitoring large scaled structures and preserving natural environments. The monitoring system has been tested and evaluated in a possible outdoor condition in view of the full scaled operation at actual sites to be monitored. Additionally, the developed systems in the previous works conveniently provided us with various options of sensor modules intended for monitoring such physical quantities as displacement, distortion, pressure, binary states, and liquid adhesion. In this paper, we extend the previous results to a water leakage detection problem and develop a sensing system as a result. By the experimental study, it is verified that multi-point leakage detection is possible using single line optical fiber.

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