DISTRIBUTED STRAIN MEASUREMENT WITH POLYMER OPTICAL FIBER INTEGRATED IN TECHNICAL TEXTILES USING THE OPTICAL TIME DOMAIN REFLECTOMETRY TECHNIQUE

摘要

The presented research is carried out on the background of the development of a new strain sensor, integrated in technical textiles using the optical time domain reflectometry (OTDR) technique. We investigated the effect of increased scattering in POF due to applied strain as a distributed sensor including research on long-term stability and reliability of this sensor.