Use of Fiber Bragg Grating Sensors for Determination of a Simply Supported Rectangular Plane Plate Deformation

A measurement method has been developed to determine the full-field deformation of a simply supported plane plate under transverse load. The method utilizes strain information provided by a set of four fiber Bragg grating sensors mounted on the plate in a way that all sensors measure strains along one certain direction. The sensors were interrogated using a wavelength swept fiber laser. Utilizing the strain information and the first four terms of Navier solution of simply supported rectangular plate, the necessary parameters for determining the deflection could be computed. By substituting the values of $x$- and $y$-coordinates of each position on the rectangle plate, the full-field deformation information can be obtained. Single-point loading tests were experimentally performed to verify the accuracy of the method.