Optical fiber crack sensor for concrete structures

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3042, Issue , 1997, Pages 283-292

  Leung, Christopher K Y ^a   Elvin, Niell ^a   Olson, Noah ^a   Morse, Theodore F ^b   He, Yi Fei ^b  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^b Brown University   (United States)

Author keywords

Crack detection; Health monitoring; Non destructive evaluation; Optical fiber; Sensor

Indexed keywords

CONCRETE BUILDINGS; CONCRETE CONSTRUCTION; CRACK DETECTION; NONDESTRUCTIVE EXAMINATION; OPTICAL FIBERS; SENSORS; STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

BROWN UNIVERSITY; CRACK LOCATION; DISTRIBUTED SENSING; HEALTH MONITORING; NON DESTRUCTIVE EVALUATION; OPTICAL FIBER CRACK SENSOR; PERFORMANCE REQUIREMENTS; THEORETICAL MODELING;

CONCRETES;

EID: 0012636188     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: 1996756X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.275747     Document Type: Conference Paper

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