Abstract:To study the grouting compactness of metallic bellows, the fiber bragg grating (FBG) technology is adopted to carry out the on-site detection for six different grouting defects (including six different conditions with no defects and defect rates of 7%, 10%, 13%, 16% and 100%). Fully grouted pipes and empty pipes are served as control groups. By verifying the consistency between detection results and preset defects, the axial strain of the FBG at different grouting time (including the initial, 10 min, 180 min and 1,440 min, a total of four moments) is collected by the demodulation instrument to analyze the compactness, and then, the variation value of the central wavelength of the FBG is inversely deduced using the axial strain. The research findings reveals that for the grouting dense parts, the strain variation is relatively small, while for the defect parts, the strain variation is obvious. The strain variation decreases as the defect rate increases. The strain change is the greatest at 180 min of grouting, which accounts for more than 60% of the sum of the strain change values at 10 minutes and 1,440 minutes after grouting. The detecting results of the duct compactness have a high consistency with those at the defect settings. The variation of the central wavelength of the FBG becomes more significant as the deformation of the duct increases.