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Single mode optical fiber waveguide has been used to determine the two-dimensional strain distribution on a simply supported rectangular plate. Each of the fifty individual fibers in the rectangular grid array attached to one surface of the plate yields a measurement of the strain integrated along the length of that fiber on the specimen. By using similar sensor information from all of the fibers, both the functional form and the amplitude of the distribution may be determined. Limits on the dynamic range and spatial resolution are indicated. Applications in the measurement of internal strain and the monitoring of physically small critical-structural components are suggested.
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Claus, R.O., Wade, J.C. Distributed strain measurement in a rectangular plate using an array of optical fiber sensors. J Nondestruct Eval 4, 23–27 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00711097
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