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Vibration Analysis using Extrinsic Fabry-Perot Interferometric Sensors and Neural Networks
Intelligent Engineering Systems Through Artificial Neural Networks
  • Rohit Dua, Missouri University of Science and Technology
  • Donald C. Wunsch, Missouri University of Science and Technology
  • Steve Eugene Watkins, Missouri University of Science and Technology
Abstract

An Extrinsic Fabry-Perot interferometric (EFPI) sensor attached to a vibrating structure will see a sinusoidal strain. Harmonic analysis on this strain yields well defined harmonics. Strain level measurement, on a periodically-actuated-instrumented structure, can provide information about the heath of that structure. This approach can form a smart health monitoring system for composite structures. A simple demodulation system employing artificial neural networks (ANN) was used to extract harmonics and predict the maximum strain level on a smart composite beam. This paper deals with the computer simulation of the sinusoidal strain and implementation of the demodulation system. The system employs two back-propagation neural networks. The first network extracts the harmonics from the strain profile and the second predicts the strain levels through harmonic analysis extracted.

Meeting Name
Artificial Neural Networks in Engineering Conference, ANNIE 2002 (2002: Nov. 10-13, St. Louis, MO)
Department(s)
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Keywords and Phrases
  • Extrinsic Fabry-Perot Interferometric Sensor,
  • Vibrating Structure,
  • Harmonic analysis
Document Type
Article - Conference proceedings
Document Version
Citation
File Type
text
Language(s)
English
Rights
© 2002 American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), All rights reserved.
Publication Date
11-13-2002
Publication Date
13 Nov 2002
Citation Information
Rohit Dua, Donald C. Wunsch and Steve Eugene Watkins. "Vibration Analysis using Extrinsic Fabry-Perot Interferometric Sensors and Neural Networks" Intelligent Engineering Systems Through Artificial Neural Networks (2002)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/rohit-dua/14/