Distributed Brillouin scattering sensor for discrimination of wall-thinning defects in steel pipe under internal pressure

Applied Optics

Volumn 43, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1583-1588

  Zou, Lufan ^a   Ferrier, Graham A ^a   Afshar, Shahraam ^a   Yu, Qinrong ^a   Chen, Liang ^a   Bao, Xiaoyi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC FIELDS; BRILLOUIN SCATTERING; CONDITION MONITORING; INDENTATION; LASER PULSES; PRESSURE EFFECTS; STEEL PIPE; STRAIN MEASUREMENT;

DISTRIBUTED BRILLOUIN SCATTERING SENSOR; INNER PIPE WALL; INTERNAL PRESSURE; STRAIN DISTRIBUTIONS;

OPTICAL SENSORS;

EID: 1542366525     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.43.001583     Document Type: Article

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