This document library contains articles and white papers relevant to fiber optic sensors and sensing instruments.  For case studies on field applications of Micron Optics optical sensors and sensing instruments,  go to Sensing Applications

Civil Structures & Engineering
 - General
 - Bridges
 - Concrete Beams
 - Geotechnical
Oil & Gas
Power
Aerospace
Transportation
Sensors

General Overview:
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Civil Structures & Engineering: 
General

Distribution Optical Sensor System on the 610-m Guangzhou New TV Tower
by H. Tam, H.Y. Au, K. M. Chung, W.Y. Liao, W.H. Chung, S.Y. Liu, C.C. Lai, Y.Q. Ni, A. Csipkes 
This paper will be presented at OFC 2011 in Los Angeles, CA, USA. To purchase this paper, go to Scientific.net  

Assessment of Vibration-based Damage Identification Methods Using Displacement and Distributed Strain Measurements
by A. Philips Adewuyi, Zhishen Wu and N.H.M. Kammrujaman Serker
To purchase this paper, visit Sage Publications  

Health Monitoring System for a Tall Building with Fiber Bragg Grating Sensors
by D. S. Li, H. N. Li, L. Ren,D. S. Guo and G. B. Song
To purchase this paper, visit the SPIE digital library

Standards and guidelines - could they enhance user confidence in fibre sensor technology?
by Wolfgang R. Habel
Copyright 2007; posted with permission of the author. This paper was presented at EWOFS 2007 in Naples , Italy.

An Industrial Perspective on the Applications of Optical Sensing Technology in Selected Fields
by Allen Cheng, David Wu, Vincent Chang Chien, Patrick Tsai, and I-Wen Wu
Copyright 2006 POFC; posted with permission of Prime Optical Fiber Corporation. For more information regarding POFC, go to their website at http://www.pofc.com/.

Recent Progress on Structural Health Monitoring by Fibre Optic Sensor In Civil Engineering
By Hong-Nan LI, Liang Ren
Copyright 2005. This paper was delivered at the 3rd China-Japan-US Symposium on Structural Health Monitoring and Control (Dalian, China, October 13-16, 2004) Posted with permission of the author.

The Maturing of Optical Sensing Technology for Bridges, Dams, Tunnels, Reservoirs and other Commercial Applications
By A. Csipkes, S. Ferguson, T.W. Graver, T. C. Haber, A. Méndez, J. W. Miller
Copyright 2005 Micron Optics, Inc.

Development of FBG Sensors for Structural Health Monitoring in Civil Infrastructures
Zhi Zhou and Jinping OU
Copyright 2004; used with permission of the authors. This paper was delivered at Proceeding of North American Euro-Pacific Workshop "Sensing Issues in Civil Structural Health Monitoring" , 2004, Waikiki Beach, Oahu ,Hawaii ,USA

Fiber Bragg Grating Sensing for Structural Health Monitoring of Civil Structures
By J. D. Doornink, T.W. Graver, JP Ou, B. M. Phares and Z. Zhou
Copyright 2004. This paper was delivered at the International Symposium on Advances and Trends in Fiber Optics and Applications October 11-14, 2004.

Growing Market Acceptance for Fiber-Optic Solutions in Civil Structures
By T.W. Graver, D. Inaudi, J. Doornink
Copyright 2004 Micron Optics. This paper was delivered on October 27, 2004 at Optics East in Philadelphia, PA, USA.

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 Bridges:

Development of a long-term monitoring system based on FBG sensors applied to concrete bridges
by Carlos Rodrigues, Carlos Felix, Armindo Lage, Joaquim Figueiras
To purchase this paper, visit Science Direct  

Investigation on packages of fiber Bragg grating for use as embeddable strain sensor in concrete structure
by P. Biswas, S. Bandyopadhyay, K. Kesavan, S. Parivallal, B. Arun Sundaram, K. Ravisankar, K. Dasgupta
To purchase this paper, visit Science Direct

The study on analysis of temperature effect of FBG optical fiber sensor introduced for long-term monitoring system
by B. Joo, K. Park, Y. Hwang, and C. Lee
To purchase this paper, visit the SPIE digital library

Test bed bridge integration for safety network management system
by K. Park, B. Joo, Y. Hwang, and J. Lee
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A Novel Structural Health Management Approach for Steel Bridges 
by R. Mason. L. Gintert, M. Miller, M. Singleton, V. Hock, R. Lampo, S. Sweeney, and K. Chandler
Presentation delivered at the 2009 U.S. Army Corrosion Summit in Clearwater Beach, FL 

Short-term health monitoring of a MSS formwork
Case study of optical monitoring system on the Gi-Heung 1 bridge in Korea.
Copyright 2008; posted with permission.

Real Scale Bridge Beam Test 
Laboratory test evaluating the behavior and performance of real scale bridge beam. 
Copyright 2008; posted with permission.

Health Monitoring of Rehabilitated Concrete Bridges Using Distributed Optical Fiber Sensing
by Wei Zhang, Junqi Gao, Bin Shi, Heliang Cui, Hong Zhu (2006)

FBG Bending Gauge on bridges - An effort towards standardization of bridge structural health monitoring
By I-Wen Wu, Chung-Yue Wang, Ming-Hung Chen, Hao-Lin Wang, Allen Cheng, Patrick Tsai, David Wu, Hung-Wei ChangChien, Hentai Shang
Copyright 2006; posted with permission of POFC.

The Application of FBG Sensors in Monitoring the Binzhou Yellow River Bridge of Shandong Province
Copyright 2006 Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT). This application note posted with permission of HIT

The Application of FBG Sensing in Monitoring Hulanhe Bridge in Heilong Jiang Province
By Dr. Zhi Zhou, et.al., School of Civil Engineering
Copyright 2005 Harbin Institute of Technology. Used with permission of the authors.

The Application of FBG Sensing in Monitoring Ebian Daduhe River Bridge in Sichuan Province
By Dr. Zhi Zhou, et.al., School of Civil Engineering
Copyright 2005 Harbin Institute of Technology. Used with permission of the authors.

Characterizing Aged Bridge Response by Loading Test
Copyright 2005 POFC. This application note posted with permission of POFC

Structural Health Monitoring of a Steel Railway Bridge using Optical Fibre Bragg Grating Sensors and Numerical Simulation
By George J. Tsamasphyros, Elias A. Koulalis, George N. Kanderakis, Nikos K. Furnarakis, Vangelis Z. Astreinidis
Copyright 2005; posted with permission of the authors.

Remote Health Monitoring of a High Performance Steel Bridge Using Fiber Optic Technology
by J.D. Doornink, B.M. Phares, A. Abu-Hawash, T.J. Wipf, D.J. Hemphill, L.F. Greimann
Copyright 2004 BEC; posted with permission of the Bridge Engineering Center of the Iowa State University Research Park. For more information regarding the Bridge Engineering Center, go to their website /www.bec.iastate.edu/.

Concrete/Concrete Beams:

Application of Fiber Bragg Grating Sensor to Monitor Early Age Deformation of High Performance Concrete
by Y.W. Yun, X.W. Wang, I.Y. Jang, S.S. Kim
To purchase this paper, go to Scientific.net

Smart FRP-OFBG Bars and their Application in Reinforced Concrete Beams
by Z. Zhou, J.P. Ou & B. Wang
Copyright 2004 HIT; posted with permission of the Harbin Institute of Technology in China.

Korean Accelerated Environmental Simulater (KALES) to monitor long-term behavior and performance of concrete pavement joint. 
Copyright 2008; posted with permission of MainTra Co., Ltd.

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Application of FBG Sensors in Shaking Table Test of Frame-Shear Wall Structure Model
By L. Sun, Hai X. Zhang, D. Liang, Z. Li 
To purchase this paper, go to Scientific.net 

Rockslide Deformation Monitoring with Fiber Optic Sensors 
By J.R. Moore, V. Gischig, E. Button, and S. Loew
Copyright Author(s) 2010.  This work is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License

Progressive Rockslope Failure 
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich

Application of Multiplexed FBG and PZT Impedance Sensors for Health Monitoring of Rocks
By Yaowen Yang, Venu Gopal Madhav Annamdas, Chao Wang, Yingxin Zhou

Underwater application of structural health monitoring at Fairview Cove Container Terminal
by V. Limaye; J. Gaudet; J. Newhook; D. Carter

Applications of Optical Fiber Sensor on Local Scour Monitoring
By Yung Bin Lin, Kuo Chun Chang, Jihn-Sung Lai, I-Wen Wu
Copyright 2006; posted with permission of POFC.

Establishment [of] the Bridge Scour Safety Monitoring System by Using Fiber Bragg Grating Sensors Introduction
By Yung Bin Lin, Kuo Chun Chang
Copyright 2006; posted with permission of POFC.

A novel ice-pressure sensor based on dual FBGs
By Zhi Zhou, Chunguang Lan, Taiming Lin, Jinping Ou
Copyright 2005; used with permission of the authors. This paper was delivered at Smart Structures & Materials/NDE Joint Conference: Sensors and Smart Structures Technologies for Civil, Mechanical, and Aerospace Systems, SPIE, San Diego, USA, 2005

Long-term Monitoring of Seismic Changes of a Key Fault
Copyright 2005 POFC; posted with permission of Prime Optical Fiber Corporation.

Real Time Subsea Monitoring and Control Smart Field Solutions
by D. Brower and N. Prescott
Copyright 2004; posted with permission of Astro Technology Inc.

Real-time Flow Assurance Monitoring with Non-intrusive Fiber Optics Technology
by D. Brower, N. Prescott, J. Zhang, C. Howerter, D. Rafferty
Copyright 2005; posted with permission of Astro Technology Inc.

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Oil & Gas:

Monitoring the structural integrity of a flexible riser during dynamic loading with a combination of non-destructive testing methods
by R. Jacques, T. Clarke, S. Morikawa, T. Strohaecker
To purchase this paper, go to the ScienceDirect.com 

Development of an FBG-based low temperature measurement system for cargo containment fof LNG Tankers
by D.G. Kim, W. Yoo, P. Swinehart, B. Jiang, T. Haber and A. Mendez
To purchase this paper, go to the SPIE Digital Library  

Health Monitoring System for Offshore Platform with Fiber Bragg Grating Sensors
by L. Ren, H. Li, J. Zhou, D. Li, and L. Sun
To purchase this paper, go to the SPIE Digital Library

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Aerospace:

High-speed internal strain measurements in composite structures under dynamic load using embedded FBG sensors 
by Jeannot Frieden, Joel Cugnoni, John Botsis, Thoma Gmur, Dragan Coric
* To purchase this paper, go to Science Direct 

Power:

In-fibre Bragg grating sensors for distributed temperature measurement in a polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell
by Nigel A. David, Peter M. Wild, Jingwei Hu, Nedjib Djilali
* To puchase this paper, go to Science Direct

Fundamentals for Remote Structural Health Monitoring of Wind Turbine Blades - a Preproject Annex A - Cost-Benefit for Embedded Sensors in Large Wind Turbine Blades
by Lars Gottlieb Hansen and Lars Lading

Intelligent Monitoring System With High Temperature Distributed Fiberoptic
Sensor For Power Plant Combustion Processes
by Kwang Y. Lee, Stuart S. Yin, and Andre Boehman

Temperature monitoring of nuclear reactor cores with multiplexed fiber Bragg grating sensors
by Alberto F. Fernandez; Andrei I. Gusarov; Benoit Brichard; S. Bodart; K. Lammens; Francis Berghmans; Marc C. Decreton; Patrice Megret; Michel Blondel; Alain Delchambre
To purchase this article, go the SPIE Digital Library

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 Transportation:

Strain survey of an F/A-18 stabilator spindle using high density Bragg grating arrays
by Stephen McDonald and Claire Davis

Utilization of Fiber Optic Bragg Grating Sensing Systems for Health Monitoring in Railway Aplications 
By H.Y. Tam, T. Lee, S.L. Ho, T. Haber, T. Graver, A. Mendez
© 2007 Used, with permission, from the authors.

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Sensors:

Fiber Optic Sensors in Structural Health Monitoring
by J.M. Lopez-Higuera, L. R. Cobo, A.Q. Incera and A. Cobo
To purchase this paper, go to Journal of Lightwave Technology 

Tailored processing of epoxy with embedded shape memory alloy wires
by E.L. Kirkby, J. O'Keane, R. de Oliveira, V.J. Michaud and J-A. E. Manson
To purchase this paper, go to IOP Science

Fiber Bragg Grating sensor to monitor stress kinetics in drying process of commercial latex paints
by I. de Lourenco, Jr, G. R. C. Possetti, M. Muller and J. L. Fabris
copyright 2010. MDPI Open Access

Highly versatile fiber-based optical Fabry-Perot gas sensor
by J. Liu, Y. Sun and X. Fan
copyright 2009. Optics Express, vol 17, issue 4, pp2731-2738

Sensitivity enhancement of long-gage FBG sensors for macro-strain measurements
by Suzhen Li and Zhishen Wu

Strain Sensors Based on Bragg Gratings
By K. Haase
Copyright 2007 HBM; posted with permission of HBM, Inc. This paper was delivered at the IMEKO 20th TC3, 3rd TC16 and 1st TC22 International Conference Cultivating metrological knowledge 27th to 30th November 2007. Merida, Mexico

Strain Measurement with Fiber Bragg Grating Sensors
by Manfred Kreuzer
Copyright 2007 HBM; posted with permission of HBM, Inc.

Volatile organic compound sensing using a surface relief D-Fiber Bragg grating and a polydimethylsiloxane layer
by Tyson Lowder, John Gordon, Stephen Schultz, and Richard Selfridge

Fiber Bragg grating multi-chemical sensor
by Patrick Boland, Gopakumar Sethuraman, Alexis Mendez, Tom Graver, Dmitry Pestov, and Gregory Tait
Copyright 2007; posted with permission of the authors

Fiber Sensors Lay Groundwork for Structural Health Monitoring
Copyright 2006 Laser Focus World, February 2006 issue

Combined Static and Dynamic Monitoring of Civil Structures with Long-gauge Fiber Optic Sensors
By D. Inaudi, J.W. Miller, and T.W. Graver
Copyright 2005 Smartec; used with permission. This paper was delivered at the IMAC XXIII Conference & Exposition on Structural Dynamics, January 31 - February 3, 2005.

Experimental Investigation of Optical Waveguide-Based Multigas Sensing
By Wei Peng, Gary Pickrell, Fabin Shen, and Anbo Wang
© 2005 IEEE. Reprinted, with permission, from IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett., vol. 16, no. 10, pp. 2317-2319, 2004

In-Situ Failure Identification in Woven Composites throughout Impact using Fiber Bragg Grating Sensors
By James Pearson, Mohanraj Prabhugoud, Mohammed Zikry, Kara Peters
© 2006 North Carolina State University, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Reprinted, with permission, from the authors.

Miniature Fiber-Optic Pressure Sensor
By Yizheng Zhu, and Anbo Wang
© 2005 IEEE. Reprinted, with permission, from IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett., vol. 17, no. 2, pp. 447-449, 2005

Process for Mounting and Packaging of Fiber Bragg Grating Strain Sensors for use in Harsh Environment Applications 
By V.P. Wnuk, A. Mendez, S. Ferguson, and T.W. Graver
Note: this paper was delivered at the 2005 Smart Structures/NDE conference in San Diego, California, March 8-9, 2005.

Review of Fiber Optic Accelerometers 
By C. Baldwin, J. Niemczuk, J. Kiddy, and T.Salter
Copyright 2005 SPA. This paper was delivered at the IMAC XXIII Conference & Exposition on Structural Dynamics, January 31 - February 3, 2005. Used with permission of Systems Planning and Analysis, Inc. 

Techniques of Advanced FBG sensors: fabrication, demodulation, encapsulation
and their application in the structural health monitoring of bridges
By Z. Zhou, T. W. Graver, L. Hsu, JP Ou
Copyright 2004 Beijing Tricom LTD. Posted with permission of Beijing Tricom LTD in China

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