Shen, S.; Jiang, S.-F. Distributed Deformation Monitoring for a Single-Cell Box Girder Based on Distributed Long-Gage Fiber Bragg Grating Sensors. Sensors2018, 18, 2597.
Shen, S.; Jiang, S.-F. Distributed Deformation Monitoring for a Single-Cell Box Girder Based on Distributed Long-Gage Fiber Bragg Grating Sensors. Sensors 2018, 18, 2597.
Shen, S.; Jiang, S.-F. Distributed Deformation Monitoring for a Single-Cell Box Girder Based on Distributed Long-Gage Fiber Bragg Grating Sensors. Sensors2018, 18, 2597.
Shen, S.; Jiang, S.-F. Distributed Deformation Monitoring for a Single-Cell Box Girder Based on Distributed Long-Gage Fiber Bragg Grating Sensors. Sensors 2018, 18, 2597.
Abstract
Distributed deformation based on Fiber Bragg Grating sensors or other kinds of strain sensors can be used to evaluate safety in operating periods of bridges. However, most of the published researches about distributed deformation monitoring are focused on solid rectangular beam rather than box girder—a kind of typical hollow beam widely employed in actual bridges. Considering that the entire deformation of a single-cell box girder contains not only bending deflection but also two additional deformations respectively caused by shear lag and shearing action, this paper again revises the improved conjugated beam method (ICBM) based on the LFBG sensors to satisfy the requirements for monitoring two mentioned additional deformations. The best choice for the LFBG sensor placement in box gilder is also proposed in this paper due to strain fluctuation on flange caused by shear lag effect. Results from numerical simulations show that most of the theoretical monitoring errors of the revised ICBM are 0.3%~1.5%, and the maximum error is 2.4%. A loading experiment for a single-cell box gilder monitored by LFBG sensors show that most of the practical monitoring errors are 6%~8%, and the maximum error is 11%.
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