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Integrity of Optical Fiber Sensor for Measurement of Ground Thermal Conductivity (지중 열전도도 측정을 위한 광섬유 센서의 건전성)

  • Yoon, Seok;Choi, Jung-Chan;Lee, Seung-Rae;Lee, Michael-MyungSub
    • Proceedings of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute Conference
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    • 2011.04a
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    • pp.157-160
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    • 2011
  • 본 연구에서는 광섬유 센서 기반 스마트 모니터링 시스템이 지중 열전도도 측정에도 효율적으로 적용될 수 있는지를 분석하였다. 이를 위해 광섬유 온도센서를 이용하여 지반의 열전도도를 측정할 수 있는 열응답 시험기가 개발되었다. 개발된 열응답 시험기는 기존의 RTD(Resistance Temperature Detector) 온도 센서 외에 광섬유 센서의 한 종류인 FBG(Fiber Bragg Grating) 센서도 실시간적으로 측정할 수 있는 시스템으로 구성되어 있다. 개발된 장비의 적용성 검증을 위하여 주문진 표준사를 이용하여 모형토조 내에 일정한 간극비에 맞추어 시료가 조성되었으며 지중열교환기는 U자형 파이프가 사용되었다. 20시간동안 열응답 시험을 통하여 광섬유 센서와 RTD 센서를 동시에 이용하여 온도값을 측정하여 표준사의 열전도도 값을 산출하였다. 그 결과 모형실험을 통한 열전도도 값은 탐침법을 통해 얻어진 열전도도 값과 선형 열원 모델(line source model) 해석해와 거의 유사하게 나타났으며 광섬유 센서와 RTD 센서와의 온도차는 0.1~0.3$^{\circ}$로써 유사한 값을 나타내었다. 따라서 본 연구에서 개발된 광섬유 기반 열응답 시험기는 지반의 열전도도를 측정하는데 효과적으로 사용될 수 있음을 알 수 있었으며 향후 지열시스템 가동에 따른 지중열 교환기의 손상도 평가 및 경보시스템 개발을 위해 지중열교환기의 거동을 실시간으로 모니터링 하는데 있어서도 효과적으로 사용될 수 있을 것으로 생각된다.

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Species Concentration Measurement Using Diode Laser Absorption Spectroscopy (I) (다이오드 레이저를 이용한 광흡수 농도 계측 기법 (I))

  • Ahn, Jae-Hyun;Kim, Yong-Mo;Kim, Se-Won
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Combustion
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    • v.9 no.3
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    • pp.27-35
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    • 2004
  • Diode laser absorption sensors are advantageous because they may provide fast, sensitive, absolute, and selective measurements of species concentration. These systems are very attractive for practical applications owing to its compactness, resonable cost, robustness, and ease of use. In addition, diode lasers are fiber-optic compatible and thus enable simultaneous measurements of multiple species along a line-of-sight. Recent advances of room-temperature, near-IR and visible diode laser sources for telecommunication, optical data storage applications make it possible to be applied for combustion diagnostics based on diode laser absorption spectroscopy. Therefore, combined with fiber-optics and high sensitive detection strategies, compact and portable sensor systems are now appearing for variety of applications. The objectives of this research are to develope a new gas sensing system and to verify feasibility of this system. Wavelength and power characteristics as a function of injection current and temperature are experimentally found out. Direct absorption spectroscopy has been demonstrated in these experiments and has a bright prospect to this diode laser system.

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In situ Stress Measurements with Submonolayer Sensitivity As a Probe of Coherent-to-incoherent Matching at an Interface in Ultrathin Magnetic Films

  • Jeong, Jong-Ryul;Kim, Young-Seok;Shin, Sung-Chul
    • Journal of Magnetics
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    • v.7 no.4
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    • pp.151-155
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    • 2002
  • In situ stress changes at interfaces of ultrathin magnetic films were measured by means of a non-contact optical fiber bundle displacement detector. A bending of the substrate due to stress of a deposited film was detected in cantilever geometry. The highest sensitivity of 134 mV/$\mu$m for the displacement detector was realized with a help of computer simulation. The detector was applied to in situ stress measurements of Co/Pt and Ni/Pd magnetic multilayer films prepared on the glass substrates by dc magnetron sputtering. The detector turned out to have a submonolayer sensitivity that enables to observe coherent-to-incoherent transition in these mismatched multilayers and even detect the stress changes within the monoatomic coverage. This highly sensitive detector paves new way to probe the stress relaxation at an interface in ultrathin films.

Reflection Signal Analysis for Time Division Multiplexing of Fiber Optic FBG Sensors (광섬유 FBG 센서의 시간 분할 다중화를 위한 반사 신호의 분석)

  • Kim, Geun-Jin;Kwon, Il-Bum;Yoon, Dong-Jin;Hwang, Du-Sun;Chung, Young-Joo
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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    • v.30 no.1
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    • pp.6-12
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    • 2010
  • Fiber optic sensor using fiber Bragg grating(FBG) probes is used for monitoring strain and temperature distributed on the wide surfaces of large structures. In this paper, in order to use many FBG probes in one optical fiber line, we propose a complex multiplexing technology which is composed of two techniques, one is time division multiplexing and another is wavelength division multiplexing. However, we only investigate the characteristics of time division multiplexing because FBG sensors basically can be operated by wavelength division multiplexing. We calculate the optimal reflectivities and the lengthwise location of five FBG probes in serial connection in order to obtain the unique reflected intensities from the FBG probes. We fabricate five FBG probes with the reflectivities of 13%, 16%, 25%, 40% and 80%, which are determined by the theoretical calculation, and observe the signal reflected from each FBG in the time domain from the experiment. There are differences between experimental and theoretical results caused by the signal noise and the differences of reflectivities of FBG probes. But the experimental results shows the reflected signals of five FBG probes which prove the availability of complex multiplexing.

Advanced flame quality indicator for emission control (저공해 연소를 위한 화염진단장치의 특성)

  • Kim, Jong-Won;Lee, Sang-Ho;Park, Kee-Bae;Sim, Kyu-Sung
    • Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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    • v.5 no.6
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    • pp.43-50
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    • 1996
  • It is very important to improve the combustion efficiency and reduce pollutant emission in order to save energy and environment. Especially, thermal NOx has been reduced through monitoring burner flame, because the thermal NOx is strongly related to flame characteristics. In this work, a flame-monitoring system was fabricated with photodiode, optical fiber, interference filter and data acquisition system, and it was applied to a lab-scale methane combustion system and a testing facility. Flame intensity and mean frequency increased with increasing turbulent intensity and fuel loading. The sensor signal from flame fluctuations differed from that without flame, which showed the availability af the flame scanner to find the presence of flame. NOx emissions increased with flame intensity.

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A Fundamental Study on Structure Health Monitoring System Based on Energy Harvesting of Harbour Structure (자가발전기반 항만 구조물 건전성 모니터링 시스템에 대한 기초연구)

  • Jong-Hwa Yi;Seung-Hyeon Lee;Young-seok Kim;Chul Park
    • Journal of the Society of Disaster Information
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    • v.18 no.4
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    • pp.847-860
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    • 2022
  • Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to present a basic study on the development of a self-generation infrastructure for monitoring the health of harbour structures. Method: By developing a self-generation system and fiber optic sensors for seawater, the study provides basic research data on port structure health monitoring. Result: Through sunlight simulation analysis, 4-5 hours of sunlight can be secure in the domestic environment. Through this, the optical splitter (Introgate) that collects the raw data from the FBG sensor applicable to seawater, the MCU that calculates it, the IoT module with wireless communication functionality, the monitoring server and the supply system are set up. Conclusion: Monitoring port structures directly with fiber optic probes (FBG) and the possibility of using selfpowered systems were confirmed.

Performance Evaluation of Smart Accelerometers for Structural Health Monitoring (구조 건전성 감시를 위한 스마트 가속도계의 성능 평가)

  • Yi, Jin-Hak;O, Hye-Sun;Yun, Chung-Bang
    • KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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    • v.26 no.4A
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    • pp.605-609
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    • 2006
  • In this study, two kinds of smart accelerometers are investigated for the application of smart sensors to the structural health monitoring of infrastructures. Smart optical Fiber Bragg Grating (FBG) type and Micro-Electo-Mechanical System (MEMS) type accelerometers are selected for this study and the high sensitive ICP type accelerometer is used for the reference sensor. Small size shaking table tests were performed with 3-story shear building model using random input ground motions. The output only modal identification was carried out using stochastic subspace identification and the performances of sensors are compared in modal domain indirectly. The modal sensitivity method was applied to update the story stiffness of numerical model and the updated results were verified using the additional experiments for the same structure with additional mass.

A Possible Application of the PD Detection Technique Using Electro-Optic Pockels Cell With Nonlinear Characteristic Analysis on the PD signals

  • Kang, Won-Jong;Lim, Yun-Sok;Chang, Young-Moo;Koo, Ja-Yoon
    • KIEE International Transactions on Electrophysics and Applications
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    • v.11C no.2
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    • pp.6-11
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    • 2001
  • Abstract- In this paper, a new Partial Discharge (PD) detection using Pockels cell was proposed and considerable apparent chaotic characteristics were discussed. For this purpose, PD was generated from needle-plane electrode in air and detecte by optical measuring system using Pockels cell, based on Mach-Zehner interferometer, consisting of He-Ne laser, single mode optical fiber, 50/50 beam splitter and photo detector. In addition, the presence of chaos of the PD signals has been investigated by examining their means of qualitative and quantitative information. For the former, return map and 3-dimensional strange attractor have been drawn in order to investigate the presence of chaotic characteristics relevant to PD signals, detected through CT and Peckels sensor respectively, in the normalized time series. The presence of strange attractor indicates the existence of fractal structures in it's phase space. For the latter, several dimension values of strange attractor were verified sequentially. Throughout this paper, it is likely that the chaotic characteristics regarding the PD signals under air are verified.

Reinforcing effect of CFRP bar on concrete splitting behavior of headed stud shear connectors

  • Huawen Ye;Wenchao Wang;Ao Huang;Zhengyuan Wang
    • Steel and Composite Structures
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    • v.48 no.2
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    • pp.131-143
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    • 2023
  • The CFRP bar was used to achieve more ductile and durable headed-stud shear connectors in composite components. Three series of push-out tests were firstly conducted, including specimens reinforced with pure steel fibers, steel and CFRP bars. The distributed stress was measured by the commercial PPP-BOTDA (Pre-Pump-Pulse Brillouin optical time domain analysis) optical fiber sensor with high spatial resolution. A series of numerical analyses using non-linear FE models were also made to study the shear force transfer mechanism and crack response based on the test results. Test results show that the CFRP bar increases the shear strength and stiffness of the large diameter headed-stud shear connection, and it has equivalent reinforcing effects on the stud shear capacity as the commonly used steel bar. The embedded CFRP bar can also largely improve the shear force transfer mechanism and decrease the tensile stress in the transverse direction. The parametric study shows that low content steel fibers could delay the crack initiation of slab around the large diameter stud, and the CFRP bar with normal elastic modulus and the standard reinforcement ratio has good resistance to splitting crack growth in headed stud shear connectors.

Fiber-optic Goniometer to Measure Knee Joint Angle for the Diagnosis of Gait Disturbance (보행장애 진단을 위한 무릎관절 각도 측정용 광섬유 각도센서)

  • Kim, S.G.;Shin, S.H.;Jeon, D.;Hong, S.H.;Sim, H.I.;Jang, K.W.;Yoo, W.J.;Lee, B.
    • The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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    • v.62 no.7
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    • pp.1009-1013
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    • 2013
  • In this study, we developed a fiber-optic goniometer for the continuous measurement of knee joint angle which provides important medical information on Alzheimer's disease. The fiber-optic goniometer is composed of a light-emitting diode (LED), a plastic optical fiber (POF), and a voltage output photodiode (PD). As a sensing part of the fiber-optic goniometer, a unclad fiber with regular intervals of 1 mm was fabricated to improve efficiency of bending loss according to the angle variation of knee joint. The emitting light with a center wavelength of 470 nm from a LED is guided by a POF to the PD, the transmitted light is then attenuated by the bending loss inside the bent POF. The intensity variation of the light transmitted from the POF gives rise to a change in output voltage in the fiber-optic goniometer. Therefore, we measured the real-time output voltage of the proposed fiber-optic goniometer using the unclad fiber according to the knee joint angle. Through the repeated experiments, the fiber-optic goniometer shows that it has a reversibility and a wide measurable angle range.