Damage detection for international America's cup class yachts using a fiber optic distributed strain sensor

IEICE Transactions on Electronics

Volumn E-86-C, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 218-223

  Shimada, Akiyoshi ^a,d   Naruse, Hiroshi ^a   Uzawa, Kiyoshi ^b   Kimura, Gaku ^b   Murayama, Hideaki ^c   Kageyama, Kazuro ^d  

^a NTT Access Network Service Systems Laboratories   (Japan)

^b GH Craft Ltd   (Japan)

^c JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

BOTDR; Health monitoring; Yacht

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITE MATERIALS; FIBER OPTICS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; STRAIN; YACHTS;

ADVANCED COMPOSITE MATERIALS (ACM);

OPTICAL SENSORS;

EID: 0042361981     PISSN: 09168524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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