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Desenvolvimento de sensores baseados em fibra óptica para monitoramento estrutural
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2016-04-01) FERNANDES, Cindy Stella; GIRALDI, Maria Thereza Miranda Rocco; http://lattes.cnpq.br/0270661833822671; COSTA, João Crisóstomo Weyl Albuquerque; http://lattes.cnpq.br/9622051867672434
The research and development of systems for measuring physical and mechanical parameters of structural health, allows the early detection of collapses, deterioration process and other natural and / or caused by man factors. In this case, real-time measurements of these parameters are crucial for identification, localization and quantification of damages, and also improve the maintenance and safety of such structures. Curvature and vibration measurements are important to structural monitoring due to their relationship with the dynamic responses of engineering structures. In this thesis, core diameter mismatch structures are proposed and experimentally investigated for curvature and vibration sensing. Among the analyzes, two settings exhibited improved performance, one approach uses a structure formed by splicing an uncoated short section of multimode fiber between two standard single mode fibers (SMS), combined to an optical fiber mirror at its end, and the other approach is made by the sandwich of one single mode fiber section between two short multimode fiber sections, spliced between two standard single mode fibers (SMSMS). The SMS device is analyzed through experimental measurements and numerical simulations. In the curvature analysis, the proposed SMS sensor generates destructive interference patterns whether it is bent, varying only the attenuation of the optical signal without wavelength shifts. Numerical modeling is performed using the finite difference beam propagation method by means of the BeamProp 9.0 software of Rsoft™ company. In the experimental vibration analysis, the SMSMS sensor is formed by two MMF sections that act as coupler and re-coupler of core-cladding modes, and the SMF section in the middle acts as the "arm" of interference. So the cladding modes that propagate in the SMF middle section become sensitive to the applied frequencies. The SMSMS vibration sensor proved to be suitable to monitor very low frequencies such as 0.1 Hz. The proposed sensors configurations present several interesting features, such as easy fabrication, low-cost, high-efficiency, and high sensitivity. Although the manufacturing process of the structures is not very precise, which affects its reproducibility, such sensors very useful in a wide range of applications, such as structural health monitoring.
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Um modelo de turbulência baseado no conceito de vórtice
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2011-03-04) FERNANDES, Cindy Stella; LINS, Erb Ferreira; http://lattes.cnpq.br/5272283698536321
The turbulence is present in most of the flows observed in industry and nature. There are many considerations regarding the difficulties related to the characterization of turbulent flows. One of the many issues regarding the procedure of analyzing the problem through the statistical description of the fields, which leads to the problem of closure and the modeling of the Reynolds tensor, usually with models based on the turbulent viscosity concept. The turbulence models have some shortcomings in predicting the turbulent flow field, which justifies the research of new approaches to treatment turbulence. In this work, the problem of closure is treated using the modeling based on the concept of turbulent viscosity. The proposed new turbulence model admits the existence of vortexs immersed in the flow and applies concepts and definitions related to the identification of this structure, using the Q - criteria that characterizes the region of flow occupied by the vortex. It is proposed to investigate the applicability of this model, resulting in a new turbulence model called k − ε −Q . The model applicability is evaluated through a numerical code for computational treatment of turbulent flows. The numerical solution was obtained by discretization of the fluid domain, using the finite volume method and the multigrid method was used for solving the resulting linear system. As benchmark, we used the turbulence model to simulate the flow in a square cavity with sliding lid and turbulent flow over a backward-facing step. The results were compared with some experimental data and demonstrated that the model proposed here appears to be more effective than the classical k − ε in the treatment of turbulence in these two problems.