Photonic Test Equipment for Laboratory and Field Use in Fiber Optic Sensing and Smart Structures Research

与传统的基于电气和/或机电的传感器相比，9871036Fuhr光纤传感器具有独特的优势。光纤传感器在民用建筑领域的应用导致了“智能结构”的概念--一种具有嵌入式传感能力的结构。多年来，我们一直致力于这一研究领域，最终将光纤传感器嵌入到大型民用建筑中，如建筑物、桥梁、道路和水电大坝。我们要求提供资金购买光子测试设备，以显著加强智能结构和光纤传感领域正在进行的研究活动。为了使用传感器技术的进步，需要对用于从这些嵌入式传感器中提取测量数据的设备基础设施进行重大更新。

9871036FuhrFibers optic sensors possess particular advantages over conventional electrical and/or electro-mechanical based sensors. An application of fiber optic sensors is within the civil structures arena resulting in the notion of a "smart structure"- a structure with embedded sensing capabilities. We have been involved in this research arena for a number of years culminating in the embedding of fiber optic sensors into large civil structures such as buildings, bridges, roadways and a hydroelectric dam.Funds are requested for the purchase of photonic test equipment to significantly enhance ongoing research activities in smart structures and fiber optic sensing. In order to use the advances in sensor technology requires a major updating of the equipment infrastructures used to extract measurements from these embedded sensors.