Optical Cable Plant for Fly-by-Light Applications

Structural monitoring systems installed on marine and waterfront structures experience accelerated corrosion rates and failures associated with premature degradation. Fiber optic sensors can be packaged in housings that offer the ability to be embeddeddirectly into composite and concrete structures allowing for very long lifetimes. This program will develop, fabricate and install structural monitoring systems based on fiber grating sensors and interferometeric sensors on test pier structures.Measurements will be made on static and dynamic strain to support the determination of lateral load response, vertical load response, stress, strain, displacement and natural frequency.