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NCKRI Symposium 2: Proceedings of the Thirteenth Multidisciplinary Conference on Sinkholes and the Engineering and Environmental Impacts of Karst
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Publication Date
May 2013
Abstract
Brillouin Optical Time Domain Reflectometry (BOTDR) is a distributed fiber optic strain sensing systems based on Brillouin scattering. This technique may potentially become a useful tool to monitor and predict karst collapse, especially for linear infrastructure such as roads, highways, and railways. This paper introduces a calibration device which is used to establish the relationship between fiber deformation and underlain soil -cave dimension. Based on the deformation characteristics of the sinkhole collapse, the mechanical relation between soil body and sensing fiber is analyzed, and a simplified model of collapse is proposed for testing design. The experimental tests are carried out through the designed equipment to investigate the effect of the sinkhole's size and the overburden stratum's thickness on embedded optical fibers. Firstly, the sinkhole formation process was stimulated with the orderly changes in load on the optical fiber. Secondly, the impact of the changes of sinkhole size on the sensing fiber monitoring was analyzed. It shows from the experiment results that the strain change in the sinkhole formation process can be monitored by distributed optical fiber sensing technology and the sinkhole size can be reflected through the optical fiber strain range. Besides, the sensibility of coated optical fiber in sinkhole collapse monitoring tests varies between different types of optical fibers. Due to the effective response of the distributed optical fiber sensing technology to sinkhole forming and evolving, it can be adopted in the monitoring for potential sinkhole collapse. -- Authors Open Access - Permission by Publisher See Extended description for more information.
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Conference Proceeding
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University of South Florida
Identifier
K26-00120
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Guan, Zhende; Jiang, Xiaozhen; and Gao, Ming, "A calibration test of karst collapse monitoring device by optical time domain reflectometry (BOTDR) technique NCKRI Symposium 2: Proceedings of the Thirteenth Multidisciplinary Conference on Sinkholes and the Engineering and Environmental Impacts of Karst" (2013). KIP Talks and Conferences. 29.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/kip_talks/29
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