US 12,313,532 B1
Static cone penetration test device and test method incorporating hyperspectral imaging technology
Qiang Xue, Hubei (CN); Houzhen Wei, Hubei (CN); Yong Wan, Hubei (CN); Xiaolong Ma, Hubei (CN); Hang Ruan, Hubei (CN); Xiang Sun, Hubei (CN); and Jiangshan Li, Hubei (CN)
Assigned to Institute of Rock and Soil Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hubei (CN)
Filed by Institute of Rock and Soil Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hubei (CN)
Filed on Aug. 6, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/796,276.
Claims priority of application No. 202311624717.9 (CN), filed on Nov. 29, 2023.
Int. Cl. G01N 21/31 (2006.01); E02D 1/00 (2006.01); G01N 21/25 (2006.01); G01N 33/24 (2006.01); G02B 6/26 (2006.01); G02B 6/32 (2006.01)
CPC G01N 21/3151 (2013.01) [E02D 1/00 (2013.01); G01N 21/255 (2013.01); G01N 33/24 (2013.01); G02B 6/26 (2013.01); G02B 6/325 (2013.01); G01N 2021/3155 (2013.01); G01N 2201/1293 (2013.01)] 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A static cone penetration test device incorporating hyperspectral imaging technology, comprising:
a housing;
a friction cylinder, coaxially connected with the housing;
a static cone penetration assembly, disposed inside the friction cylinder to detect a resistance the device suffers when the device is pressed into a soil;
an optical window, coaxially connected with the friction cylinder;
light sources, mounted inside the optical window, wherein light emitted by the light sources is penetrated through the optical window into the soil, and a target object in the soil reflects the light and then the reflected light enters the housing through the optical window;
wherein the static cone penetration assembly comprises a measurement rod disposed inside the friction cylinder and multiple resistance strain gauges fixedly connected on a circumferential side of the measurement rod; a conveying piece for conveying a force applied by the soil to the friction cylinder to the measurement rod is disposed inside the friction cylinder;
wherein the measurement rod comprises an upper measurement rod, a middle-end head and a lower measurement rod fixedly connected coaxially, and the middle-end head has a larger diameter than the upper measurement rod and the lower measurement rod; the conveying piece is a fixing clamp ring, wherein an inner ring of the fixing clamp ring is fixedly connected at the middle-end head and an outer ring is fixedly connected on an inner sidewall of the friction cylinder; and the resistance strain gauges are mounted on circumferential sides of the upper measurement rod and the lower measurement rod;
wherein inside the housing are disposed:
an optical fiber sensor, configured to receive the reflected light of the target object and output information of two spatial dimensions and one spectral dimension;
a wireless transceiver, configured to upload test data and receive a control signal;
a data processing chip, configured to perform analysis processing on an electrical signal output by the optical fiber sensor and send data to the wireless transceiver; and
a power supply, configured to supply power to the light sources, the optical fiber sensor, the data processing chip and the wireless transceiver,
wherein the optical fiber sensor comprises an optical fiber array, a splitter device, an area array optical fiber bundle and an area array image sensor connected in sequence, the optical fiber array is disposed on an inner side surface of the optical window, and an axial direction of the optical fiber array is perpendicular to the inner side surface of the optical window, wherein the received light penetrated through the optical fiber array, the splitter and the area array optical fiber bundle in sequence,
wherein the splitter device comprises a splitter housing, an input fiber collimator, a directional splitter device and an output fiber collimator, wherein the input fiber collimator, the directional splitter device and the output fiber collimator are located in the splitter housing and sequentially disposed along a light path; the input fiber collimator, the directional splitter device and the output fiber collimator are coaxial.