Analysis of Vibration Measurements in a Composite Material Using an Embedded PM-PCF Polarimetric Sensor and an FBG Sensor

Author

Rajan, Ginu ; Ramakrishnan, Manjusha ; Semenova, Yuliya ; Domanski, Andrzej ; Boczkowska, Anna ; Wolinski, Tomasz ; Farrell, Gerald

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electron. & Commun. Eng., Dublin Inst. of Technol., Dublin, Ireland

Volume

12

Issue

5

fYear

2012

fDate

5/1/2012 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1365

Lastpage

1371

Abstract

Low frequency vibration measurements in composite materials using embedded optical fiber sensors are presented in this paper. The two types of fiber sensors embedded are a polarization maintaining photonic crystal fiber (PM-PCF) polarimetric fiber sensor and a fiber Bragg grating (FBG) sensor. A glass fibre reinforced polymer composite material sample is fabricated with both fiber optic sensors embedded in it. A comparison between the performance of both the PM-PCF polarimetric fiber sensor and the FBG sensor embedded in the composite material is also presented.

Keywords

Bragg gratings; composite materials; fibre optic sensors; holey fibres; optical fibre fabrication; photonic crystals; vibration measurement; FBG sensor; composite materials; embedded PM-PCF polarimetric sensor; fiber Bragg grating sensor; glass fibre reinforced polymer composite material; low frequency vibration measurements; polarization maintaining photonic crystal fiber polarimetric fiber sensor; Composite materials; Frequency measurement; Optical fiber polarization; Optical fiber sensors; Vibration measurement; Vibrations; Composite materials; fiber Bragg grating; polarimetric sensor; vibration measurement;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Sensors Journal, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1530-437X

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JSEN.2011.2172412

Filename

6047557