Application of fiber optic distributed sensor for strain measurement in civil engineering

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3241, Issue , 1997, Pages 247-258

  Kurashima, Toshio ^a   Usu, Tomonori ^a   Tanaka, Kuniaki ^a   Nobiki, Atsushi ^a   Sato, Masashi ^b   Nakai, Kenji ^b  

^a NTT Access Network Service Systems Laboratories   (Japan)

^b Civil Engineering Research Institute of Hokkaido   (Japan)

Author keywords

Brillouin scattering; Civil engineering; Optical fiber; Optical fiber sensor; Strain; Structure; Temperature

Indexed keywords

APPLICATIONS; BRILLOUIN SCATTERING; CIVIL ENGINEERING; ENGINEERING; FIBER OPTICS; GAGES; INTEGRATED CONTROL; MEDICAL IMAGING; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL MATERIALS; SENSORS; STRAIN GAGES; STRUCTURAL DESIGN; ULTRASONICS;

CIVIL ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS; CONCRETE MATERIALS; DISTRIBUTED STRAIN SENSORS; DISTRIBUTED STRAINS; ELASTIC LIMITS; FIBER OPTIC DISTRIBUTED SENSORS; FIBER STRAIN SENSORS; IN FIBERS; INDUCED STRAINS; LARGE BUILDINGS; LONG FIBERS; MODEL EXPERIMENTS; MONITORING SYSTEMS; OPTICAL FIBER SENSOR; OPTICAL TIME-DOMAIN REFLECTOMETERS; RESISTANCE STRAIN GAGES; SENSING FIBERS; SPATIAL RESOLUTIONS; STRAIN CHANGES; STRAIN DISTRIBUTIONS; STRUCTURE;

FIBERS;

EID: 0001717860     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.293504     Document Type: Conference Paper

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