Optical fiber sensors are the most promising technique in monitoring physical and chemical
variables of civil structures. For the brittle material characteristics, a bare sensing fiber is …

The field of structural engineering is vast, spanning areas from the design of new
infrastructure to the assessment of existing infrastructure. From the onset, traditional entry …

This paper is a review on distributed optic fiber sensing for structural health monitoring
applications, with a deeper focus on technologies relying on the Rayleigh backscattering …

In this paper, we address the effective and robust identification of material behavior
parameters from full-field measurements obtained by means of the advanced Digital Image …

When a train passes along prestressed concrete (PC) bridges, crack opening reduces the
girder stiffness, providing important indicators for the practical evaluation of bridge …

Concrete structures are easy to produce cracks which seriously affect the safety of the
structures. Rayleigh based distributed optical fiber sensing technique has been used to …

Structural health monitoring (SHM) activities are essential for achieving a realistic
characterisation of bridge structural performance levels throughout the service life. These …

This paper presents a concept for parametric modelling of mechanized tunnelling within a
state of the art design environment, as the basis for design assessments for different levels …

The design idea and complete system design scheme of crack monitoring system based on
fiber micro-bending principle are proposed. The simulation test platform of crack monitoring …

In this paper, a novel damage detection method for shear frame structures was presented.
The proposed approach was derived from frequency response function (FRF) …