FBG-based smart composite bogies for railway applications

Laurent Maurin (1) , Jonathan Boussoir (1) , Stéphane Rougeault (1) , M. Bugaud (1) , Pierre Ferdinand (1) , A.G. Landrot (2) , Y.-H. Grunevald (3) , T. Chauvin (3)

1 LCFO - Laboratoire Capteurs Fibres Optiques
2 Alstom Transport - Alstom Transport
3 DDL Consultants

FBGs are used as in-situ transducers for mechanical reliability assessment of new composite-based bogies. A 16 million cycles fatigue test was carried out. Asynchronous undersampled FBG measurements are in agreement with modeling.

Keywords: instrumentation; fatigue; Fiber Bragg Grating; transducer; Distributed and Quasi-distributed sensing; Optical Fiber Sensor; structure monitoring; smart structure; composite material; smart bogies; railway rolling stock; asynchronous undersampling; fatigue testing; modeling

Domains: Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det]; Optics / Photonic

Laurent Maurin, Jonathan Boussoir, Stéphane Rougeault, M. Bugaud, Pierre Ferdinand, et al.. FBG-based smart composite bogies for railway applications. OFS 2002 - IEEE International Conference on Optical Fiber Sensors, May 2002, Portland, United States. pp.91-94, ⟨10.1109/ofs.2002.1000509⟩. ⟨cea-03907480⟩