TY - CONF A1 - Habel, Wolfgang A1 - Buchholz, Uwe A1 - Heidmann, G. A1 - Höhse, Marek A1 - Lothongkam, Chaiyaporn T1 - Fibre-optic sensors for early damage detection in plastic insulations of high-voltage facilities T2 - ISH 2011 - 17th International symposium on high voltage engineering N2 - Fibre-optic sensors (FOS) have great potential as online damage detectors when integrated in HV accessories. Among their well-known use as temperature and strain sensors, there are some more opportunities of use, e. g. they can intimately be embedded in polymeric insulations of HV cable terminations and joints to detect and monitor partial discharges right at the location of their origin. Two FOS types for early PD detection were investigated: an embeddable fibre-optic acoustic sensor to measure acoustlc waves in polymeric insulations generated by PDs, and a fluorescent optical fibre to detect first optical effects during ionization processes in the insulation material. The paper descrlbes these methods, related monitoring Problems and shows first test results. T2 - ISH 2011 - 17th International symposium on high voltage engineering CY - Hannover, Germany DA - 22.08.2011 KW - Fibre optic sensors KW - Monitoring KW - Materials behavior KW - Early shrinkage of cement paste PY - 2011 SN - 978-3-8007-3364-4 SP - 2070 EP - 2075 PB - VDE Verlag GmbH AN - OPUS4-24270 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -