Displacement and Strain Measurement up to 1000 °C using a Hollow Coaxial Cable Fabry-Perot Resonator
Abstract
We present a hollow coaxial cable Fabry-Perot resonator for displacement and strain measurement up to 1000 °C. By employing a novel homemade hollow coaxial cable made of stainless steel as a sensing platform, the high-temperature tolerance of the sensor is dramatically improved. A Fabry-Perot resonator is implemented on this hollow coaxial cable by introducing two highly-reflective reflectors along the cable. Based on a nested structure design, the external displacement and strain can be directly correlated to the cavity length of the resonator. By tracking the shift of the amplitude reflection spectrum of the microwave resonator, the applied displacement and strain can be determined. The displacement measurement experiment showed that the sensor could function properly up to 1000 °C. The sensor was also employed to measure the thermal strain of a steel plate during the heating process. The stability of the novel sensor was also investigated. The developed sensing platform and sensing configurations are robust, cost-effective, easy to manufacture, and can be flexibly designed for many other measurement applications in harsh high-temperature environments.
Recommended Citation
C. Zhu et al., "Displacement and Strain Measurement up to 1000 °C using a Hollow Coaxial Cable Fabry-Perot Resonator," Sensors, vol. 18, no. 5, MDPI AG, Apr 2018.
The definitive version is available at https://doi.org/10.3390/s18051304
Department(s)
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Center/Lab(s)
Intelligent Systems Center
Keywords and Phrases
Coaxial cables; Cost effectiveness; Fabry-Perot interferometers; High temperature applications; Microwave devices; Microwave resonators; Strain; Strain measurement; Displacement; Fabry-Perot resonators; High temperature; High-temperature environment; Nested structures; Reflection spectra; Sensing configuration; Sensing platforms; Displacement measurement; Hollow coaxial cable
International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)
1424-8220
Document Type
Article - Journal
Document Version
Final Version
File Type
text
Language(s)
English
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© 2018 MDPI AG, All rights reserved.
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Publication Date
01 Apr 2018
