MONITORING AND SAFETY OF HANDLING EQUIPMENT

Abstract

The paper presents a new solution for continuous measurement of deformations of the beam of travelling crane based on optical fibre Bragg gratings system. A verification of obtained results was done using resistive strain gauge method and magnetic metal memory method was used. Usage of the results of continuous measurements of deformation of the structure of the crane as actual boundary conditions in FEM numerical simulations was proposed in order to enable the analysis of the behaviour of whole structure.

Keywords

• optical fibre Bragg grating sensors
• overhead travelling crane
• monitoring
• operational safety
• FEM