Project
AI-Enhanced Distributed Optical Fiber Sensing Technology for Real-Time Monitoring of Dry Cask Storage Systems
Project
Acoustic nondestructive evaluation (NDE) will be combined with distributed fiber optic sensing enhanced by artificial intelligence (AI) frameworks to quantitatively characterize the internal state of dry cask storage systems (DCSS). Physics-based simulations and reduced order modeling will be coupled with targeted experiments to train and apply AI-classification to distributed acoustic data acquired with fiber optics. The project covers aspects of design, fabrication, and testing of optical fiber sensors for DCSS monitoring, demonstrating new concepts in acoustic fiber optic sensing and data interpretation with AI.
