Ruonan Ou
PhD candidate
Office: 435 Davis Hall
Email: ouruon ‘at’ berkeley ‘dot’ edu
Ruonan Ou is currently a PhD student in Systems, Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at UC Berkeley. Her research focuses on the application of distributed fiber optic sensing technology (DFOS) in structure health monitoring (SHM), especially on the early stage detection of crack and the dynamic traffic tracking. She works on developing algorithms to overcome the spatial resolution issue of Brillouin Scattering-based sensing system and applies them to monitor the crack generation in the pavement and the levee cutoff wall. Her work also includes tracking the vehicle movement on the pavement using dynamic DFOS. Her research aims to contribute to smart city and infrastructure.
She obtained her B.Eng. in Civil Engineering from Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT) in 2016 and her M.Eng. in Systems, Civil and Environmental Engineering from UC Berkeley in 2017. In the fall semester of 2014, she studied as an exchange student in the University of Hong Kong. In HIT, she researched FEM-based seismic vulnerability analysis of latticed shells and the mechanism of passive pile group caused by tunneling.
Research Interests:
- Distributed fiber optic sensing technology: static and dynamic strain sensing, temperature sensing.
- Structure health monitoring: levee cutoff wall, concrete pavement and asphalt pavement
- Data analysis algorithms
- Smart city and infrastructure
- Fracture monitoring
- Dynamic traffic tracking
Research Activities:
09/2018: Ruonan Ou, Linqing Luo, Zijun Cao, Kazuhiro Mukai, Bingyu Zhao installed fiber optic cables inside thin bonded concrete overlay of asphalt (BCOA) in Davis, CA (cooperation with University of California Pavement Research Center)
06/2019: Ruonan Ou, Linqing Luo, Hayato Nonaka, Kazuhiro Mukai, Shenghan Zhang and Han Liu attached the fiber optic cables to the asphalt pavement in Richmond Field Station
07~08/2019: Fiber optic cable installation in the piles of TBSI building in Shenzhen, China
07/2020: Ruonan Ou, Peter Hubbard, Linqing Luo, Hayato Nonaka and Yaobin Yang built a 100-m long smart pavement with different types of sensors embedded inside
07/2020: Ruonan Ou, Andrew Yeskoo, Linqing Luo, John Murphy, Hayato Nonaka and Yaobin Yang installed fiber optic cables inside the levee cutoff wall in Sacramento, CA (cooperation with US Army Corps of Engineers)
05/2021 Ruonan Ou, Yaobin Yang, James Wang monitored crack generation in the SCCB beam using Brillouin scattering-based distributed fiber optic sensing technology
Publications:
[1] Ou, Ruonan, Linqing Luo, and Kenichi Soga. “Brillouin scattering spectrum-based crack measurement using distributed fiber optic sensing.” Structural Health Monitoring (2021): 14759217211030913.
[2] Ou, Ruonan, Linqing Luo, Kenichi Soga. “Vehicle tracking using Brillouin scattering-based dynamic fiber optic strain sensing technology.