INSPIRE Archived Webinars
Alternative Title
Fiber Optic Sensor Based Corrosion Assessment in Reinforced Concrete Bridge Elements and Metal Pipelines
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Webinar Date
16 Jun 2021, 10:00 am
Abstract
In this 50-minute lecture, the fundamental concepts of fiber optic sensors for both distributed and point corrosion measurements are reviewed. For the distributed monitoring of a line bridge component such as steel reinforced girders, Brillouin scattering and fiber Bragg gratings (FBG) can be coupled to measure both temperature and radial strain as an indirect indicator of corrosion process. For the point monitoring of steel structures, long period fiber gratings (LPFG) are specially designed for a direct measurement of mass loss or the loss in cross sectional area of the component. In particular, a Fe-C coated LPFG sensor is introduced for corrosion induced mass loss measurement when Fe-C materials are comparative to the parent steel component to be monitored. The sensing system operates on the principle of LPFG that is responsive to not only thermal and mechanical deformation, but also the change in refractive index of any medium surrounding the optical fiber. Fabrication process of the LPFG is demonstrated through the CO2 laser aided fiber grating system. To enable mass loss measurement, a low pressure chemical vapor deposition (LPCVD) system is introduced to synthesize a graphene/silver nanowire composite film as flexible transparent electrode for the electroplating of a thin Fe-C layer on the curve surface of a LPFG sensor. An integrated sensing package is illustrated for corrosion monitoring and simultaneous strain and temperature measurement. Two bare LPFGs, three Fe-C coated LPFG sensors are multiplexed and deployed inside three miniature, coaxial steel tubes to measure critical mass losses through the penetration of tube walls and their corresponding corrosion rates in the life cycle of an instrumented steel component. The integrated package can be utilized for in-situ deterioration detection in reinforced concrete and steel structures. Assisted by a permanent magnet in pipeline monitoring, both FBG and LPFG sensors are combined with an extrinsic Fabry-Perot interferometer (EFPI) to measure both internal and external thickness reductions without impacting the operation of the pipeline.
Biography
Dr. Genda Chen is Professor and Robert W. Abbett Distinguished Chair in Civil Engineering, Director of the INSPIRE University Transportation Center, and Director of the Center for Intelligent Infrastructure at Missouri University of Science and Technology (S&T). He received his Ph.D. degree from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1992 and joined Missouri S&T after over three years of bridge design, inspection, and construction practices. Since 1996, Dr. Chen has authored or co-authored over 400 technical publications in structural health monitoring (SHM), structural control, computational and experimental mechanics, multi-hazards assessment and mitigation, and transportation infrastructure preservation and resiliency including over 180 journal papers, 5 book chapters, and 27 keynote and invited presentations at international conferences. He chaired the 9th International Conference on Structural Health Monitoring of Intelligent Infrastructure (SHMII-9), St. Louis, Missouri, August 4-7, 2019. He received the 2019 SHM Person of the Year award, the 1998 National Science Foundation CAREER Award, the 2004 Academy of Civil Engineers Faculty Achievement Award, and the 2009, 2011, and 2013 Missouri S&T Faculty Research Awards. In 2016, he was nominated and inducted into the Academy of Civil Engineers at Missouri S&T and became an honorary member of Chi Epsilon. He is a Fellow of American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), Structural Engineering Institute (SEI), and the International Society for Structural Health Monitoring of Intelligent Infrastructure (ISHMII). He is a Section Editor of the Intelligent Sensors, Associate Editor of the Journal of Civil Structural Health Monitoring, Associate Editor of Advances in Bridge Engineering, Editorial Board Member of Advances in Structural Engineering, and Vice President of the U.S. Panel on Structural Control and Monitoring.
Recommended Citation
Chen, Genda, "Fiber Optic Sensor Based Corrosion Assessment in Reinforced Concrete Members" (2021). INSPIRE Archived Webinars. 16.
https://scholarsmine.mst.edu/inspire_webinars/16
Department(s)
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
Research Center/Lab(s)
INSPIRE - University Transportation Center
Document Type
Video - Presentation
Document Version
Final Version
File Type
text
Language(s)
English
Rights
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