A high sensitivity FBG strain sensor based on flexible hinge

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Abstract

For the purpose of improving the sensitivity of the fiber Bragg grating (FBG)-based strain sensor. A novel FBG-based strain sensor with high sensibility was designed by means of a flexible hinge bridge displacement magnification structure. This sensor can be used to accurately measure the strain of a mechanical structure surface. In this paper, the strain sensitization amplification factor of the sensor was calculated by using the flexible matrix method and the strain energy theory. The magnification had been verified by using simulation analysis and experimental results, and the error between theoretical calculation and simulation analysis was less than 7%. The result shows that the strain sensitivity of the sensor is 10.84 pm/με, which is about 10 times to that of the bare FBG sensor. This sensor is sensitive to micro-strain, so it can be well applied to health monitoring of a mechanical system.

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Liu, M., Wang, W., Song, H., Zhou, S., & Zhou, W. (2019). A high sensitivity FBG strain sensor based on flexible hinge. Sensors (Switzerland), 19(8). https://doi.org/10.3390/s19081931

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