Fiber acoustic emission sensing apparatus and method for service behavior of hydraulic concrete structure

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10520475-B2
Application number	US-201715834617-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 7, 2017
Priority date	Dec 7, 2017
Publication date	Dec 31, 2019
Grant date	Dec 31, 2019

Abstract

A fiber acoustic emission sensing apparatus and method including a laying device and an acoustic emission source; the laying device comprises base plate, first side plate and second side plate, the top portion of the first side plate connected with the top portion of the second side plate through an arc-shaped fiber-carrying channel, a main cavity formed by the first side plate and the second side plate; top portions of the first and second side plates respectively hinged with first and second arc-shaped covers, the lower end surface of the first arc-shaped cover fixedly connected with a first arc-shaped pressing body, the lower end surface of the second arc-shaped cover fixedly provided with a second arc-shaped pressing body, a first sensing fiber arranged under the first arc-shaped pressing body, and a second sensing fiber arranged under the second arc-shaped pressing body.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A fiber acoustic emission sensing apparatus for a service behavior of a hydraulic concrete structure, comprising a plurality of sensing fiber emission laying devices and an acoustic emission source, wherein each sensing fiber emission laying device comprises a base plate, and a first side plate and a second side plate fixedly connected with two sides of the base plate, a top portion of the first side plate is connected with a top portion of the second side plate through an arc-shaped fiber-carrying channel, and a main common cavity is formed by the base plate, the first side plate, the second side plate and the arc-shaped fiber-carrying channel; the top portions of the first side plate and the second side plate are respectively hinged with a first arc-shaped cover and a second arc-shaped cover, a lower end surface of the first arc-shaped cover is fixedly connected with a first arc-shaped pressing body, a lower end surface of the second arc-shaped cover is fixedly provided with a second arc-shaped pressing body, a first sensing fiber in the arc-shaped fiber-carrying channel is arranged under the first arc-shaped pressing body, and a second sensing fiber is arranged under the second arc-shaped pressing body, and the first arc-shaped cover is connected with the second arc-shaped cover through a locking device; after the first arc-shaped cover and the second arc-shaped cover are rotated to tightly press the first sensing fiber and the second sensing fiber through the first arc-shaped pressing body and the second arc-shaped pressing body, the first arc-shaped cover and the second arc-shaped cover are locked through the locking device; and the acoustic emission source is connected with one end of the first sensing fiber and one end of the second sensing fiber, other ends of the first sensing fiber and the second sensing fiber are connected with a receiver, and the receiver is connected with an optical detector, a second amplifier, a signal processor, a memory and an information system for concrete structure monitoring and evaluation in sequence.

2. The fiber acoustic emission sensing apparatus for a service behavior of a hydraulic concrete structure according to claim 1 , further comprising a laser optical source, wherein the laser optical source passes through a mode-locked laser, a polarization beam splitter, a nonlinear amplifier, a spectrograph, a Michelson interferometer, a femtosecond pulse, an edge filter and a first amplifier in sequence to be connected with an optical splitter, and the optical splitter is connected with the first sensing fiber and the second sensing fiber.

3. The fiber acoustic emission sensing apparatus for a service behavior of a hydraulic concrete structure according to claim 1 , wherein a plurality of first through holes is arranged on the first side plate along an axis direction of the first sensing fiber.

4. The fiber acoustic emission sensing apparatus for a service behavior of a hydraulic concrete structure according to claim 3 , wherein a plurality of second through holes is arranged on the second side plate along an axis direction of the second sensing fiber.

5. The fiber acoustic emission sensing apparatus for a service behavior of a hydraulic concrete structure according to claim 4 , wherein the first through hole is a common cavity circular hole, a section of the common cavity circular hole is a circular hole, the second through hole is a common cavity hexagonal hole, a section of the common cavity hexagonal hole is a hexagonal hole, and both the first through hole and the second through hole are in an odd number.

6. The fiber acoustic emission sensing apparatus for a service behavior of a hydraulic concrete structure according to claim 5 , wherein both the first arc-shaped cover and the second arc-shaped cover are provided with a convex corner.

7. The fiber acoustic emission sensing apparatus for a service behavior of a hydraulic concrete structure according to claim 6 , wherein external surfaces of the base plate, the first side plate and the second side plate are all provided with an external groove.

8. The fiber acoustic emission sensing apparatus for a service behavior of a hydraulic concrete structure according to claim 7 , wherein the first sensing fiber and the second sensing fiber are separated by a carrying-channel membrane.

9. A method of a fiber acoustic emission sensing apparatus for a service behavior of a hydraulic concrete structure, comprising the following steps of:
first step: establishing each component in a sensing fiber acoustic emission laying module, equipping a sensing fiber with a certain length, rotating a first side plate and a second side plate to form a 60-degree included angle with a horizontal plane, so as to form a main common cavity;
second step: rotating a first arc-shaped cover and a second arc-shaped cover to drive a first arc-shaped pressing body and a second arc-shaped pressing body to move, respectively pressing a first sensing fiber and a second sensing fiber in the arc-shaped fiber-carrying channel through a bulge between the first arc-shaped pressing body and the second arc-shaped pressing body, and laying four sensing fiber acoustic emission laying devices in a concrete structure to be tested by external grooves;
third step: opening and debugging each sensing fiber acoustic emission laying device, adjusting and marking the first sensing fiber and the second sensing fiber in the four sensing fiber acoustic emission laying devices laid in the concrete structure, and modulating femtosecond pulses of the first sensing fiber and the second sensing fiber through a laser optical source;
fourth step: femtosecond pulse optical information of the first sensing fiber and the second sensing fiber in the four sensing fiber acoustic emission laying devices being affected by acoustic emission waves in an acoustic emission source when the concrete structure generates the acoustic emission source under the effect of an external load, and the acoustic emission waves resonating with a common cavity circular hole, a common cavity hexagonal hole and a main common cavity in different time and frequencies, the femtosecond pulse optical information being secondarily amplified and delayed in physical size, and secondarily amplified and delayed femtosecond pulse optical information being transferred to the first sensing fiber and the second sensing fiber;
fifth step: receiving and detecting varying femtosecond pulse optical information through the receiver and the optical detector, and then conducting de-noising processing and data storage on the varying femtosecond pulse optical information through the signal processor and the memory, so as to collect the varying femtosecond pulse optical information in an information system for concrete structure monitoring and evaluation; and
sixth step: drawing a varying time-history curve of the varying femtosecond pulse optical information in the information system for concrete structure monitoring and evaluation to reflect a change of the acoustic emission waves generated by the acoustic emission source, so as to dynamically monitor and detect the concrete structure.

Assignees

• Univ Hohai

Inventors

• Su Huaizhi
• Yang Meng
• Gu Chongshi
• Xie Wei

Classifications

• G01N2291/102

  one emitter, one receiver · CPC title

• G01N2291/0232

  Glass, ceramics, concrete or stone · CPC title

• G01D5/35377

  Means for amplifying or modifying the measured quantity · CPC title

• G01N29/14

  using acoustic emission techniques {(echo of particles G01N29/046; measuring mechanical vibrations or acoustic waves in solids in general G01H1/00)} · CPC title

• G01D5/35335

  Aspects of emitters or receivers used by an interferometer in an optical fibre sensor arrangement (using multiple sensor devices using multiplexing techniques G01D5/35383) · CPC title