Pressure vessel wall thinning detection using multiple pairs of fiber Bragg gratings for unbalanced strain measurements

Journal of Nondestructive Evaluation

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 105-113

  Lo, Yu Lung ^b   Sung, Po Hsun ^a   Wang, Horng Jou ^a   Chen, Lien Wen ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; INTELLIGENT STRUCTURES; PRESSURE VESSELS; STRAIN MEASUREMENT;

PRESSURE VESSEL WALL THINNING DETECTION; UNBALANCED SYSTEM;

FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS;

EID: 0034262157     PISSN: 01959298     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1026575024826     Document Type: Article

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