A smart twisted type carbon fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP) bar was developed with FBG embedment during the
manufacturing process. Sensing behaviors of the smart bar under static and fatigue loading were tested. The results show
that it retains a good sensing performance after 200 million cycles. Among application, smart steel strand and smart stay
cable were designed. And tensile experiments of such smart structures were carried out, showing good performance.
This paper presents a novel fiber flowmeter based on distributed feedback fiber laser (DFB-FL). The DFB-FL is encapsulated in a PU tube which is put in the center of the flow pipe. When the flow speed changes, the flow induced pressure turbulence on the surface of the PU tube will change correspondingly. This pressure fluctuation is demodulated using phase-generated-carrier (PGC) method. The test result shows that the sensitivity of the fiber laser flowmeter is about 8×10-3 pm/(m3/h). A resolution of 1.25×10-4 m3/h is achieved.
The paper proposes an accelerometer construction based on 45-degrees Fabry-Perot (F-P) interferometer cavity. The uniform intensity cantilever consists of a mass block in the middle and a 45-degrees F-P cavity fixed inside the mass. The mass block can oscillate freely when the vibrating sensor is subject to the vibration and the F-P cavity length is changing. The G-lens end face and total reflective film make up the two reflective films of the F-P cavity, and the reflectivity are 4% and 90% respectively. In the F-P cavity, a 45-degrees mirror fixed in the middle of the G-lens and total reflective film. The mirror can change the transmission of the light and increase the optical path difference. The total reflective film fixed in the steel tube and the G-lens fixed in the fine tuning bolt. The bolt can fine adjust the F-P cavity in sensor encapsulating. The sensor structure lead to the optical loss in the airborne and tilted mirror, besides the distance of F-P gap in steel tube and the optical coupling efficiency can’t work out accurately, so we did a series deterministic test before encapsulating, for example the selection of the structures, the diameter of the optical fibers and the diameter of the reflective films. At last, 9/125 μm optical fiber, 1.4 mm total reflective film and the structure of total reflective film out of steel tube were used for the accelerometer. The sensitivity can reach 0.042 rad/g and the resonant frequency of the accelerometer is 400 Hz.
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