Intelligent bolt for optical fiber grating sensor

2013 
The invention relates to an intelligent bolt for an optical fiber grating sensor and relates to the optical fiber sensing and structure health monitoring field. According to the intelligent bolt, the optical fiber grating sensor is packaged in a bolt body and is used for monitoring, in an on-line mode, extension of the bolt body in a working state. The intelligent bolt comprises a transmission optical fiber, a protection sleeve, a rubber layer and the bolt body. The optical fiber grating sensor is arranged in the middle of the transmission optical fiber. A nut is arranged at the top end of the bolt body. The bolt body is provided with a countersink defined to be a sensor heeling-in hole. The bottom end of the bolt body is not through, and the top end of the bolt body is provided with a through hole. The intelligent bolt is simple in working principle, simple and convenient to manufacture, exquisite in structure, low in cost, and capable of achieving distribution type measurement easily, and effectively prevents large-scale structural pieces from causing accidents due to coming-off or breakage of bolts or other reasons.
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