Railway overhead contact wire monitoring system by means of FBG sensors
Safety of infrastructures represents one of the most significant concerns for governments and service providers to preserve people's well-being. One of the main ways to keep in safe facilities (buildings, bridges, railways, etc.) involves the use of monitoring sensor systems in charge of measur...
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| author | Erwin Ciro Zuleta Carla Lupi Ferdinando Felli Claudio Paris Cristian Vendittozzi |
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| description | Safety of infrastructures represents one of the most significant concerns for governments and service providers to preserve people's well-being. One of the main ways to keep in safe facilities (buildings, bridges, railways, etc.) involves the use of monitoring sensor systems in charge of measuring critical operating conditions. Those measurements together with periodical maintenance, contribute to minimize potential risks that the infrastructure faces. The paper aims at designing, developing, and testing a monitoring system for mechanical stresses acting on the overhead contact wire (OCW) to ensure the operational safety of the railway network. In this regard, the paper proposes two Fiber Bragg Grating (FBG) sensors-based solutions, relying on the ability of these sensors to allow real-time and continuous data acquisition. The first one consists in a polyimide-coated sensor bonded on an OCW clamp, the second one is a copper-coated sensor hanging between the two separated halves of an OCW clamp. Significant results have been obtained mechanically testing both solutions, trying to simulate the operative conditions. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-c0460f27464e44e7a3c3b5bc58167bc32025-01-02T23:01:33ZengGruppo Italiano FratturaFracture and Structural Integrity1971-89932021-06-011557Railway overhead contact wire monitoring system by means of FBG sensorsErwin Ciro Zuleta0Carla Lupi1Ferdinando Felli2Claudio Paris3Cristian Vendittozzi 4DICMA, Sapienza Università di Roma, Via Eudossiana 18, 00184 Roma, Italy DICMA, Sapienza Università di Roma, Via Eudossiana 18, 00184 Roma, Italy DICMA, Sapienza Università di Roma, Via Eudossiana 18, 00184 Roma, Italy Centro Ricerche Enrico Fermi, Via Panisperna 89a, 00184 Roma, Italy Faculty UnB Gama, Universidade de Brasília - UnB, Brasília, 72444-240 Gama Brasília-DF, Brazil Safety of infrastructures represents one of the most significant concerns for governments and service providers to preserve people's well-being. One of the main ways to keep in safe facilities (buildings, bridges, railways, etc.) involves the use of monitoring sensor systems in charge of measuring critical operating conditions. Those measurements together with periodical maintenance, contribute to minimize potential risks that the infrastructure faces. The paper aims at designing, developing, and testing a monitoring system for mechanical stresses acting on the overhead contact wire (OCW) to ensure the operational safety of the railway network. In this regard, the paper proposes two Fiber Bragg Grating (FBG) sensors-based solutions, relying on the ability of these sensors to allow real-time and continuous data acquisition. The first one consists in a polyimide-coated sensor bonded on an OCW clamp, the second one is a copper-coated sensor hanging between the two separated halves of an OCW clamp. Significant results have been obtained mechanically testing both solutions, trying to simulate the operative conditions.https://www.fracturae.com/index.php/fis/article/view/3117FBGOCWEmbedded Sensory SystemElectrodeposited metal coatingStrain measuring |
| spellingShingle | Erwin Ciro Zuleta Carla Lupi Ferdinando Felli Claudio Paris Cristian Vendittozzi Railway overhead contact wire monitoring system by means of FBG sensors Fracture and Structural Integrity FBG OCW Embedded Sensory System Electrodeposited metal coating Strain measuring |
| title | Railway overhead contact wire monitoring system by means of FBG sensors |
| title_full | Railway overhead contact wire monitoring system by means of FBG sensors |
| title_fullStr | Railway overhead contact wire monitoring system by means of FBG sensors |
| title_full_unstemmed | Railway overhead contact wire monitoring system by means of FBG sensors |
| title_short | Railway overhead contact wire monitoring system by means of FBG sensors |
| title_sort | railway overhead contact wire monitoring system by means of fbg sensors |
| topic | FBG OCW Embedded Sensory System Electrodeposited metal coating Strain measuring |
| url | https://www.fracturae.com/index.php/fis/article/view/3117 |
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