Analysis of Reliability of Strain Measurements Made with the Fiber Bragg Grating Sensor Rosettes Embedded in a Polymer Composite Material

The results of strain measuring experiments, with the help of rosettes consisting of fiber Bragg grating sensors (FBG) embedded at the manufacturing stage in a polymer composite material are considered in this paper. The samples were made by the direct pressing method from fiberglass prepregs. A cross-shaped sample was tested under loading conditions corresponding to a complex stress state. A variant of strain calculations based on experimental data is discussed. The calculations were performed under the assumption of a uniaxial stress state in an optical fiber embedded in the material. The obtained results provide a reasonable explanation of the absence in the conducted experiment of two peaks in the reflected optical spectrum, the presence of which follows from the known theoretical principles. The experimental result with two peaks in the reflected optical spectrum was obtained for the same sample under a different loading scheme. The proposed variant of the numerical model of the experiment and the results of numerical simulation made for FBG rosettes embedded in the material allowed to estimate error in the strain values calculated on the assumption of the uniaxial stress state in the optical fiber and in the presence of two peaks in the reflected optical spectrum.

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