Yamazaki, H.; Kurose, I.; Nishiyama, M.; Watanabe, K. Pendulum-Type Hetero-Core Fiber Optic Accelerometer for Low-Frequency Vibration Monitoring. Sensors2018, 18, 2528.
Yamazaki, H.; Kurose, I.; Nishiyama, M.; Watanabe, K. Pendulum-Type Hetero-Core Fiber Optic Accelerometer for Low-Frequency Vibration Monitoring. Sensors 2018, 18, 2528.
Yamazaki, H.; Kurose, I.; Nishiyama, M.; Watanabe, K. Pendulum-Type Hetero-Core Fiber Optic Accelerometer for Low-Frequency Vibration Monitoring. Sensors2018, 18, 2528.
Yamazaki, H.; Kurose, I.; Nishiyama, M.; Watanabe, K. Pendulum-Type Hetero-Core Fiber Optic Accelerometer for Low-Frequency Vibration Monitoring. Sensors 2018, 18, 2528.
Abstract
In this paper, a novel pendulum-type accelerometer based on hetero-core fiber optics has been proposed for structural health monitoring targeting large-scale civil infrastructures. Vibration measurement is a non-destructive method for diagnosing the failure of structures by assessing natural frequencies and other vibration patterns. The hetero-core fiber optic sensor utilized in the proposed accelerometer can serve as a displacement sensor with robustness to temperature changes in addition to immunity to electromagnetic interference and chemical corrosions. Thus the hetero-core sensor inside the accelerometer measures applied acceleration by detecting the rotation of an internal pendulum. A series of experiments showed that the hetero-core fiber sensor linearly responded to the rotation angle of the pendulum ranging within ±5°, and furthermore the proposed accelerometer could reproduce the waveform of input vibration in a frequency band of several Hz order.
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