Monitoring of new and existing stainless-steel reinforced concrete structures by clad distributed optical fibre sensing

The implementation of structural health monitoring systems in existing civil engineering structures could contribute to a safer and more resilient infrastructure as well as important savings. Due to their light weight, small size, and high resistance to the environment, distributed optical fibre sensors (DOFS) stand out as a very promising technology for damage detection and quantification in reinforced concrete structures. This dataset includes information of DOFS featuring an external polymeric cladding with rough surface, deployed in a stainless-steel reinforced concrete beam subjected to four-point bending. Several sensor positions, both embedded in the concrete and attached to the surface, are included in a multilayer configuration. The data of the sensors includes two series of test, first cyclic loading under service loads and lastly cyclic loading to failure. Additionally, data from Digital Image Correlation and the actuator recordings are included for cross-validation purposes