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DOI Prefix: 10.47001/IRJIET
Optical
fiber is a communication network that the transmission and reception of
information signals are using light, an optical source, optical detector, with
optical fiber as a transmission medium. Besides as a medium transmission of the
information signal, optical fiber can be used as a sensor. Optical fiber
sensors can measure temperature, pressure, vibration, displacement, and even
rotational motion. In designing optical fiber sensors, industry players must
ensure the performance and strength of the product to comply with applicable
standards, even with optical fiber sensor fatigue strength standards. Fatigue
is a form of failure that occurs in structures subjected to dynamic and
fluctuating stresses. This study mainly discussed the strength analysis of
fiber optic sensors affected by the temperature change until its fatigued using
the finite element method. The fiber optic sensor that received temperature
change from the passing train produced thermal stress because of the constraint
from both sides of it. Along with time, thermal stress that happens repeatedly
produce fatigue failure for fiber optic sensor. From the results of this study,
the writer obtained the lowest maximum number of cycles of 294.000 and the
highest is 14.570.000 cycles. If the number of cycles is converted to time with
existing data, the fastest time that the fiber optic sensor will fail is 3
years and 4 months and the longest time is 166 years and 4 months.
Country : Indonesia
IRJIET, Volume 6, Issue 5, May 2022 pp. 56-62