Optical pore water pressure sensing for geotechnical applications

Pore water pressure (PWP) monitoring is an essential aspect in geotechnical engineering. Accurate PWP measurement is necessary for correct representation of underground soil condition. Piezometer that allows simultaneous high resolution and large range measurement will be highly beneficial. In pract...

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Autor principal: Wong, Katherine Li Ying
Outros Autores: Yang Yaowen
Formato: Final Year Project (FYP)
Idioma:English
Publicado em: Nanyang Technological University 2022
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Acesso em linha:https://hdl.handle.net/10356/158516
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description Pore water pressure (PWP) monitoring is an essential aspect in geotechnical engineering. Accurate PWP measurement is necessary for correct representation of underground soil condition. Piezometer that allows simultaneous high resolution and large range measurement will be highly beneficial. In practice, conventional piezometers have shown to be reliable and robust however they have some shortcomings. The shortcomings are namely being prone to electromagnetic interference, labour intensive and time consuming. A fiber optic interferometric piezometer is designed to overcome the limitations of conventional piezometers. This piezometer is an optical fiber extrinsic Fabry-Perot interferometer (EFPI), which comprises of a fiber ferrule connector/flat contact (FC/FC) connector and an aluminium foil pasted on a thin metal plate. The thin metal plate is subjected to water pressure, causing deformation which obeys the small deflection theory. By adopting the conventional demodulation method used by FPI piezometer that is wavelength tracking method, measurement range is limited despite the high level of accuracy. Therefore, in this report, various demodulation methods were analyzed using the proposed piezometer to develop a suitable demodulation technique that allows simultaneous high resolution and large range measurement.
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spelling ntu-10356/1585162022-06-03T04:01:29Z Optical pore water pressure sensing for geotechnical applications Wong, Katherine Li Ying Yang Yaowen School of Civil and Environmental Engineering CYWYang@ntu.edu.sg Engineering::Civil engineering Pore water pressure (PWP) monitoring is an essential aspect in geotechnical engineering. Accurate PWP measurement is necessary for correct representation of underground soil condition. Piezometer that allows simultaneous high resolution and large range measurement will be highly beneficial. In practice, conventional piezometers have shown to be reliable and robust however they have some shortcomings. The shortcomings are namely being prone to electromagnetic interference, labour intensive and time consuming. A fiber optic interferometric piezometer is designed to overcome the limitations of conventional piezometers. This piezometer is an optical fiber extrinsic Fabry-Perot interferometer (EFPI), which comprises of a fiber ferrule connector/flat contact (FC/FC) connector and an aluminium foil pasted on a thin metal plate. The thin metal plate is subjected to water pressure, causing deformation which obeys the small deflection theory. By adopting the conventional demodulation method used by FPI piezometer that is wavelength tracking method, measurement range is limited despite the high level of accuracy. Therefore, in this report, various demodulation methods were analyzed using the proposed piezometer to develop a suitable demodulation technique that allows simultaneous high resolution and large range measurement. Bachelor of Engineering (Civil) 2022-06-03T04:01:29Z 2022-06-03T04:01:29Z 2022 Final Year Project (FYP) Wong, K. L. Y. (2022). Optical pore water pressure sensing for geotechnical applications. Final Year Project (FYP), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. https://hdl.handle.net/10356/158516 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/158516 en application/pdf Nanyang Technological University
spellingShingle Engineering::Civil engineering
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Optical pore water pressure sensing for geotechnical applications
title Optical pore water pressure sensing for geotechnical applications
title_full Optical pore water pressure sensing for geotechnical applications
title_fullStr Optical pore water pressure sensing for geotechnical applications
title_full_unstemmed Optical pore water pressure sensing for geotechnical applications
title_short Optical pore water pressure sensing for geotechnical applications
title_sort optical pore water pressure sensing for geotechnical applications
topic Engineering::Civil engineering
url https://hdl.handle.net/10356/158516
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