Quasidistributed fiber sensor for precast concrete structures monitoring

Abstract

The prestressing force is transferred to the concrete during the slack period of precast concrete structures fabrication. To contribute to a better understanding of the armor compliant behaviors during the mentioned process, a custom quasidistributed Bragg Grating optical fiber sensor system is designed, fabricated and embedded into a prestressed concrete prismatic beam. The experimental works, the results, their discussion and finally the obtained conclusions are presented in this paper.