A novel distributed optical crack sensor for concrete structures

Engineering Fracture Mechanics

Volumn 65, Issue 2-3, 2000, Pages 133-148

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

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^c Brown University   (United States)

Author keywords

Concrete structures; Crack monitoring; Fiber optic sensor

Indexed keywords

CONCRETE CONSTRUCTION; CRACK INITIATION; CRACK PROPAGATION; FAILURE (MECHANICAL); FAILURE ANALYSIS; FIBER OPTIC SENSORS; FIBERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONITORING;

CRACK MONITORING; OPTICAL CRACK SENSOR;

FRACTURE MECHANICS;

EID: 0033877557     PISSN: 00137944     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0013-7944(99)00112-5     Document Type: Article

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