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Therefore, in this paper, various types of functionality enhancement of industrialized optical fiber sensors for pavement monitoring are developed, with the corresponding operational principles clarified in theory and the performance double checked by basic experiments. Furthermore, a self-healing optical fiber sensing network system is adopted to accomplish full-scale monitoring of pavements. The application of optical fiber sensors assembly and self-healing network system in pavement has been carried out to validate the feasibility. It has been proved that the research in this article provides a valuable method and meaningful guidance for the integrity monitoring of civil structures, especially pavements.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s140508829","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2014,5,19]],"date-time":"2014-05-19T11:13:29Z","timestamp":1400498009000},"page":"8829-8850","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":37,"title":["Functionality Enhancement of Industrialized Optical  Fiber Sensors and System Developed for Full-Scale  Pavement Monitoring"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"14","author":[{"given":"Huaping","family":"Wang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Civil Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China"}]},{"given":"Wanqiu","family":"Liu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Transportation and Logistics, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China"}]},{"given":"Jianping","family":"He","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Civil Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China"}]},{"given":"Xiaoying","family":"Xing","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Transportation and Logistics, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China"}]},{"given":"Dandan","family":"Cao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Transportation and Logistics, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China"}]},{"given":"Xipeng","family":"Gao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Civil Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China"}]},{"given":"Xiaowei","family":"Hao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Civil Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China"}]},{"given":"Hongwei","family":"Cheng","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Civil Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China"}]},{"given":"Zhi","family":"Zhou","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Civil Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2014,5,19]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"897","DOI":"10.1061\/(ASCE)0733-9399(1997)123:9(897)","article-title":"Structural control past, present and future","volume":"123","author":"Housner","year":"1997","journal-title":"J. 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