Ultrasonic Sensitivity of Strain-Insensitive Fiber Bragg Grating Sensors and Evaluation of Ultrasound-Induced Strain 英文参考文献.docVIP

Sensors 2010, 10, 11248-11258; doi:10.3390/s101211248 OPEN ACCESS sensors ISSN 1424-8220 /journal/sensors Article Ultrasonic Sensitivity of Strain-Insensitive Fiber Bragg Grating Sensors and Evaluation of Ultrasound-Induced Strain Hiroshi Tsuda 1,*, Kenji Kumakura 2 and Shinji Ogihara 2 1 National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science Technology/AIST Tsukuba Central 2, Tsukuba, 305-8568, Japan 2 Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Science and Technology, Tokyo University of Science/2641 Yamazaki, Noda, 278-8510, Japan; E-Mails: kumakura-kenji@aist.go.jp (K.K.); ogihara@rs.noda.tus.ac.jp (S.O.) * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-Mail: hiroshi-tsuda@aist.go.jp; Tel.: +81-29-861-9284; Fax: +81-29-861-5881. Received: 19 October 2010; in revised form: 22 November 2010 / Accepted: 26 November 2010 / Published: 8 December 2010 Abstract: In conventional ultrasound detection in structures, a fiber Bragg grating (FBG) is glued on or embedded in the structure. However, application of strain to the structure can influence the sensitivity of the FBG toward ultrasound and can prevent its effective detection. An FBG can work as a strain-insensitive ultrasound sensor when it is not directly glued to the monitored structure, but is instead applied to a small thin plate to form a mobile sensor. Another possible configuration is to affix an FBG-inscribed optical fiber without the grating section attached to the monitored structure. In the present study, sensitivity to ultrasound propagated through an aluminum plate was compared for a strain-insensitive FBG sensor and an FBG sensor installed in a conventional manner. Strains induced by ultrasound from a piezoelectric transducer and by quasi-acoustic emission of a pencil lead break were also quantitatively evaluated from the response amplitude of the FBG sensor. Experimental results showed