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Temperature and Strain Measurements with Fiber Optic Sensors for Steel Beams Subjected to Fire

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Yi Bao, Yizheng Chen, Matthew Hoehler, Christopher M. Smith, Matthew Bundy, Genda Chen

Abstract

This paper presents measurements of high temperatures using a Brillouin scattering based fiber optic sensor and large strains using an extrinsic Fabry-Perot interferometric sensor for assessing the thermo-mechanical behaviors of simply supported steel beams subjected to combined thermal and mechanical loading. The distributed fiber optic sensor captures detailed, non- uniform temperature distributions that are compared with thermocouple measurements resulting in an average relative difference of less than 5 % at 95 % confidence level. The extrinsic Fabry- Perot interferometric sensor captures large strains at temperatures above 1000 C. The strain results measured from the distributed fiber optic sensors and extrinsic Fabry-Perot interferometric sensors were compared, and the average relative difference was less than 10 % at 95 % confidence level.
Proceedings Title
9th International Conference on Structures in Fire SiF’16
Conference Dates
June 8-10, 2016
Conference Location
Princeton, NJ, US
Pub Type
Conferences

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Keywords

fire, fiber optic sensors, Fabry-Perot interferometric sensor, Brillouin scattering
Fire risk reduction

Citation

Bao, Y. , Chen, Y. , Hoehler, M. , Smith, C. , Bundy, M. and Chen, G. (2016), Temperature and Strain Measurements with Fiber Optic Sensors for Steel Beams Subjected to Fire, 9th International Conference on Structures in Fire SiF’16, Princeton, NJ, US, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=920538 (Accessed October 11, 2025)

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Created June 9, 2016, Updated October 12, 2021
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