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Evaluation on the Applicability of Monitoring for Urban Railway Structure Using Brillouin Optical Correlation Domain Analysis Based Distributed Optical Fiber Sensor

브릴루앙 광 상관영역 기반 분포형 광섬유를 활용한 도시철도 구조물의 모니터링 적용성 평가

  • Chae, Deokho (Advanced Infrastructure Research Team, Korea Railroad Research Institute) ;
  • Lee, Sungjin (Advanced Railroad Technology Planning Department, Korea Railroad Research Institute) ;
  • Lee, Jin-Wook (Advanced Infrastructure Research Team, Korea Railroad Research Institute)
  • Received : 2018.07.13
  • Accepted : 2018.08.07
  • Published : 2018.09.01

Abstract

Recently, there have been various problems aroused on the domestic infrastructures as the domestic cities become old. Accordingly, the national concerns grow on the urban railway and the related structures, which brings the national interests are brought on the research on the maintenance and rehabilitation of the old infrastructures. The underground structure of urban railway are checked with the strain gages or fiber brag grating (FBG) sensors on the railway. However, these methods are known to have resolution limitations on the investigations of the specified abnormal section. Therefore, the applicability of the Brillouin Optical Correlation Domain Analysis (BOCDA) based distributed fiber optic sensor system on the railway was evaluated in this study. The constructed BOCDA fiber optic sensor system shows high resolution of 10, 20, 50, 100 cm and capability of continuous monitoring on overall or specified section within 2 km range. The applicability evaluation was performed on the 250 m distribution of fiber optic sensors abandoned railway for continuous monitoring. The applicability of the system on the specified area was evaluated with wheel load testing. As a result, data loss tends to increase with the reduction of spatial resolution from 1.0 m to 0.1 m. Even though the measuring speed is reduced with lower spatial resolution, data accuracy increases on the location and deformation. The system can be applicable to various structures if the proper distribution method is invented later.

최근 우리나라는 도시의 노후화가 가속되며 사회기반시설에 대한 다양한 문제점들이 발생하고 있다. 이에 영향을 받는 도시철도 구조물 또한 노후화가 가속되면서 시민들의 불안감은 커지고 있어 이에 대한 연구의 필요성이 제기되고 있다. 도시철도 구조물은 시민의 안전과 밀접하게 연관되어 있어 이상 현상을 신속히 발견하여 처리해야 한다. 도시철도 지하구조물의 경우, 선로에 변형률 게이지를 부착하거나 광섬유 센서인 브래그 격자 센서를 활용하여 측정하고 있다. 그러나 이러한 방식은 장거리 모니터링에는 용이하지만 공간 분해능이 떨어져 이상구간을 정밀하게 측정하는 데에는 한계가 있다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 브릴루앙 광 상관영역 기반(Brillouin Optical Correlation Domain Analysis; BOCDA)의 분포형 광섬유 센서 시스템을 구축하여 도시철도 지하구조물인 궤도에 관한 모니터링 적용성 평가를 수행하였다. 구축된 BOCDA 기반의 고분해능 분포형 광섬유 센서 시스템은 공간분해능 10, 20, 50, 100cm이며 측정거리 2km 구간에 대해 상시 모니터링 및 특정 위치에 대해 모니터링이 가능하다. 철도 폐선부지에 광섬유를 약 250m 포설하여 상시 모니터링에 대한 적용성을 평가하였으며, 윤중 시험기를 사용하여 특정위치에 대한 모니터링 적용성을 평가하였다. 시험결과, 공간분해능 1.0m에서 0.1m로 낮아질수록 손실이 커지는 경향을 보이고 있으며, 공간분해능이 낮을수록 측정 속도는 감소하지만 위치 및 변형에 대한 정확한 데이터를 얻을 수 있었다. 추후, 포설방법이 해결된다면 다양한 구조물의 모니터링에 활용될 수 있을 것이다.

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