Numerical investigation and optimal design of fiber Bragg grating based wind pressure sensor

Abstract

A wind pressure sensor based on fiber Bragg grating (FBG) for engineering structure was investigated in this paper. We established a transaction model of wind pressure to strain and proposed a method of temperature compensation. By finite element analysis, the basic parameters of the sensor were optimized with the aim of maximum strain under the basic wind pressure proposed in relative design code in China taking geometrical non-linearity into consideration. The result shows that the wind pressure sensor we proposed is well performed and have good sensing properties, which means it is a technically feasible solution.

Keywords

wind pressure measurement / wind pressure sensor / fiber Bragg grating / optimal design

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Acknowledgments

Supported by the National High Technology Research and Development Program of China (863 Program), Grant No. 2014AA110402, the Project of National Key Technology R&D Program in the 12th Five Year Plan of China (Grant No. 2012BAJ11B01), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 50978196), the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, and State Meteorological Administration Special Funds of Meteorological Industry Research (Grant No. 201306102).

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