TY - CONF A1 - Liehr, Sascha A1 - Krebber, Katerina T1 - Applications and prospects for distributed sensing using polymer optical fibres N2 - One of the unique advantages of polymer optical fibres (POF) is that they can be used to measure very high strain values up to 100 % and beyond exceeding the strain limits of silica fibre-based sensor principles. In this paper the distributed strain measurement capabilities of POF based on backscatter change evaluation are summarized and distributed backscatter measurement technologies are intro-duced. Application examples in the structural health monitoring (SHM) field are presented: a promising approach is the integration into technical textiles for high-strain measurement in earthwork structures and crack detection in buildings. The potential of POF for future applications in SHM such as distributed relative humidity sensing is discussed. T2 - International Conference on Smart Infrastructure and Construction CY - Cambridge, UK DA - 27.06.2016 KW - Strain measurement KW - Structural health monitoring KW - OTDR KW - Polymer Optical Fibre KW - Distributed sensing PY - 2016 UR - http://www.icevirtuallibrary.com/doi/abs/10.1680/tfitsi.61279.093 DO - https://doi.org/10.1680/tfitsi.61279.093 AN - OPUS4-37231 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Liehr, Sascha A1 - Krebber, Katerina T1 - Applications and prospects for distributed sensing using polymer optical fibres T2 - Transforming the Future of Infrastructure Through Smarter Information, Proceedings of the International Conference on Smart Infrastructure and Construction N2 - One of the unique advantages of polymer optical fibres (POF) is that they can be used to measure very high strain values up to 100 % and beyond exceeding the strain limits of silica fibre-based sensor principles. In this paper the distributed strain measurement capabilities of POF based on backscatter change evaluation are summarized and distributed backscatter measurement technologies are intro-duced. Application examples in the structural health monitoring (SHM) field are presented: a promising approach is the integration into technical textiles for high-strain measurement in earthwork structures and crack detection in buildings. The potential of POF for future applications in SHM such as distributed relative humidity sensing is discussed. T2 - International Conference on Smart Infrastructure and Construction CY - Cambridge, UK DA - 27.06.2016 KW - Strain measurement KW - Structural health monitoring KW - OTDR KW - Polymer Optical Fibre KW - Distributed sensing PY - 2016 UR - http://www.icevirtuallibrary.com/doi/abs/10.1680/tfitsi.61279.093 SN - 978-0-7277-6127-9 DO - https://doi.org/10.1680/tfi tsi.61279.093 SP - 93 EP - 98 PB - ICE Publishing CY - London, UK AN - OPUS4-37230 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -