XU ZhiHong1 & Farhad ANSARI2 1 School of Science,Nanjing University of Science , Technology,Nanjing 210014,China,2 Department of Civil , Material Engineering,University of Illinois at Chicago,IL 60607,USA
Abstract:
The creep properties of optical fiber used in fiber optical sensors were studied in this paper.A low coherent white light double interferometer system was designed and calibrated and the creep deformations of optical fibers under static and cyclic loadings were measured with this device.The research results showed that polymer coated optical fibers crept at the beginning when they were under static or cyclic load.As the number of the cyclic loading or the static loading times increased the creep tended to s...