A field deployable, multiplexed Bragg grating sensor system used in an extensive highway bridge monitoring evaluation tests

IEEE Sensors Journal

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 510-519

  Gebremichael, Y M ^a   Li, W ^a   Meggitt, B T ^b   Boyle, W J O ^a   Grattan, K T V ^a   McKinley, B ^a   Boswell, L F ^a   Aarnes, K A ^c   Aasen, S E ^d   Tynes, B ^d   Fonjallaz, Y ^e   Triantafillou, T ^f  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b EM Technology   (United Kingdom)

^c NORWEGIAN PUBLIC ROADS ADMINISTRATION   (Norway)

^d Oceanographic Company of Norway   (Norway)

^e ACREO AB   (Sweden)

^f UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Bragg grating; Sensor multiplexing; Structural integrity monitoring

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; CALIBRATION; CLIMATOLOGY; DAMS; DATA REDUCTION; FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS; FIBER OPTIC SENSORS; GAGES; MULTIPLEXING; OPTICAL CABLES; STRAIN; TRAFFIC CONTROL; TUNNELS;

BARGG GRATING; LOAD-CARRYING CAPACITY; SENSOR MULTIPLEXING; STRUCUTRAL INTEGRITY MONITORING;

OPTICAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 19944403919     PISSN: 1530437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2005.846185     Document Type: Article

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