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A Comparative Study of Laser Doppler Vibrometers for Vibration Measurements on Pavement Materials

A Comparative Study of Laser Doppler Vibrometers for Vibration Measurements on Pavement Materials

Authors :
Navid Hasheminejad
Cedric Vuye
Wim Van den bergh
Joris Dirckx
Steve Vanlanduit
Source :
Infrastructures, Vol 3, Iss 4, p 47 (2018)
Publication Year :
2018
Publisher :
MDPI AG, 2018.

Abstract

A laser Doppler vibrometer (LDV) is a noncontact optical measurement device to measure the vibration velocities of particular points on the surface of an object. Even though LDV has become more popular in road engineering in recent years, their signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) is strongly dependent on light scattering properties of the surface which, in some cases, needs to be properly conditioned. SNR is the main limitation in LDV instrumentation when measuring on low diffusive surfaces like pavements; therefore, an investigation on the SNR of different LDV devices on different surface conditions is of great importance. The objective of this research is to investigate the quality of two types of commercially available LDV systems—helium⁻neon (He⁻Ne)-based vibrometers and recently developed infrared vibrometers—on different surface conditions, i.e., retroreflective tape, white tape, black tape, and asphalt concrete. Both noise floor and modal analysis experiments are carried out on these surface conditions. It is shown that the noise floor of the He⁻Ne LDV is higher when dealing with a noncooperative dark surface, such as asphalt concrete, and it can be improved by improving the surface quality or by using an infrared LDV, which consequently improves the modal analysis experiments performed on pavement materials.

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
24123811
Volume :
3
Issue :
4
Database :
Directory of Open Access Journals
Journal :
Infrastructures
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
edsdoj.6f6eb8864cfd40e3b0e54a43d362c1a2
Document Type :
article
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.3390/infrastructures3040047