Quartz sensor for water absorption measurement in glass-fiber resins

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1159-1162

  Matko, Vojko ^a,b   Koprivnikar, Joze ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARIBOR   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Capacitive dependent crystal; Direct digital method; Exitation of the entire sensor; Glass fiber resin; Quartz sensor; Stochastic test signal; Surface measuring method; Water absorption measurement

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; GLASS FIBER REINFORCED PLASTICS; QUARTZ APPLICATIONS; RESINS; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; WATER ABSORPTION;

HUMIDITY SENSORS;

SENSORS;

EID: 0032178487     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/19.746575     Document Type: Article

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