Shielding effects of reinforced concrete structures to electromagnetic fields due to GSM and UMTS systems

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 39, Issue 3 I, 2003, Pages 1582-1585

  Antonini, Giulio ^a   Orlandi, Antonio ^a   D'Elia, Stefano ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

^b Omnitel Vodafone   (Italy)

Author keywords

Frequency domain analysis; Mobile communication; Propagation model; Reinforced concrete; Shielding

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION; CONCRETE CONSTRUCTION; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; REINFORCED CONCRETE; WALLS (STRUCTURAL PARTITIONS);

PROPAGATION MODEL; REINFORCED CONCRETE STRUCTURE;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 0038520780     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2003.810327     Document Type: Article

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