Experimental study on a noncontact method using laser displacement sensors to measure vibration stress in piping systems

This study presents a noncontact measurement method of vibration induced stress (vibration stress) using multiple laser displacement sensors and clarifies its applicability to piping vibration. In the beam structures such as piping, the stress due to bending deformation can be caused by vibration. In the presented method, the vibration displacement in the beam structures induced by the bending deformation is measured at three different locations using laser displacement sensors in a noncontact manner and the vibration stress is estimated by a simple calculation based on the beam theory. First, an applicability validation of the presented method was done by a vibration test using a cantilevered beam plate. This validation was done by comparing measurements by the presented method and the conventional method using strain gauges. Next, an experimental validation was conducted by the vibration test using a pipe specimen, and the applicability to the piping vibration was confirmed. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.