Abstract:
A drilling optimization collar for use proximate a drilling tool within a wellbore includes a fiber optic sensor filament that is sized and configured to fit within a groove formed within the drilling optimization collar. The drilling optimization collar may be a pipe segment that is sized and configured to be installed in a drill string proximate the drilling tool, and may have a plurality of sensor elements. All or a portion of the sensor elements may be formed by discrete segments of the sensor filament, and as such, the sensor filament includes sensor elements that are configured to sense a condition of the wellbore and a load on the drilling optimization collar.
Abstract:
A method of estimating a torque of a transmission clutch may include adjusting an error, deducing an estimated engine angular speed and deducing an estimated clutch torque. The error may be adjusted by deducing an engine transient torque based on an engine angular speed measured using a sensor, an engine static torque deduced using a data map and a load torque depending on a driving load. The estimated engine angular speed may be deduced based on the engine static torque and the engine transient torque. The estimated clutch torque may be deduced by summing an integration value and an error compensation value. The integration value and the error compensation value may be deduced based on a difference between the estimated engine angular speed and the measured engine angular speed.
Abstract:
An optical device, a method of configuring an optical device, and a method of using a fiber Bragg grating is provided. The optical device includes a fiber Bragg grating, a narrowband optical source, and at least one optical detector. The fiber Bragg grating has a power transmission spectrum as a function of wavelength with one or more resonance peaks, each comprising a local maximum and two non-zero-slope regions with the local maximum therebetween. The light generated by the narrowband optical source has a wavelength at a non-zero-slope region of a resonance peak that is selected such that one or more of the following quantities, evaluated at the resonance peak, is at a maximum value: (a) the product of the group delay spectrum and the power transmission spectrum and (b) the product of the group delay spectrum and one minus the power reflection spectrum.
Abstract:
In certain embodiments, an optical device and a method of use is provided. The optical device includes a fiber Bragg grating having a substantially periodic refractive index modulation along a length of the fiber Bragg grating. The fiber Bragg grating has a power transmission spectrum with a plurality of local transmission minima, wherein each pair of neighboring local transmission minima has a local transmission maximum therebetween. The local transmission maximum has a maximum power at a transmission peak wavelength. The optical device further includes a narrowband optical source in optical communication with a first optical path and a second optical path. The narrowband optical source is configured to generate light having a wavelength at or in the vicinity of a local transmission maximum or at or in the vicinity of a wavelength at which the power transmission spectrum has a maximum slope between a local transmission maximum and either one of two local transmission minima neighboring the local transmission maximum.
Abstract:
A method and system for monitoring creep in an object are provided. The creep monitoring system includes a creep sensor assembly that includes at least one image pattern pair disposed on a surface of the object. The creep monitoring method includes receiving information from the creep sensor assembly regarding an observed creep and an offset associated with the object, correcting the observed creep using the information regarding the offset and outputting the corrected information relative to the creep.
Abstract:
A bearing comprises a Bragg grated optical fiber to measure one or more parameters of the bearing. The optical fiber is coupled to the bearing in such a way that at least a part of the optical fiber that comprises Bragg grating is curved. The grating which is curved is adapted to the curvature in such a way that the frequency response is well defined and not spread out. This is achieved by arranging the gratings such that even though the fiber is curved the gratings appear to be substantially parallel instead of being influenced by the curvature.
Abstract:
A device (20) includes sensors (30, 32, 34) that sense different physical stimuli. Fabrication (90) entails forming (92) a device structure (22) to include the sensors and coupling (150) a cap structure (24) with the device structure so that the sensors are interposed between the cap structure and a substrate layer (28) of the device structure. Fabrication (90) further entails forming ports (38, 40) in the substrate layer (28) such that one port (38) exposes a sense element (44) of the sensor (30) to an external environment (72), and another port (40) temporarily exposes the sensor (34) to the external environment. A seal structure (26) is attached to the substrate layer (28) such that one port (40) is hermetically sealed by the seal structure and an external port (46) of the seal structure is aligned with the port (38).
Abstract:
A spring including a composite structure including reinforcement fibers in a matrix. The composite structure further includes at least one Bragg cell and at least one optical fiber connected to the Bragg cell.
Abstract:
A system for monitoring operating parameters for the pump section of an electrical submersible pump. The system includes an optic fiber associated with the pump section of an electrical submersible pump and having a sensor to detect at least one operating parameter within the pump section. The system also includes a signal analyzer operably associated with the optic fiber to receive an optical signal representative of the detected operating parameter.
Abstract:
An apparatus and method for measuring bending of an object, a position of an item touching the object, and a shearing force of the item using an optical waveguide may include a frequency measurer to measure a frequency of light reflected from a grating of an optical waveguide, and a bending measurer to determine bending of an object to which the optical waveguide is attached using the frequency.