Damage detection of reinforced concrete beams with novel distributed crack/strain sensors

Structural Health Monitoring

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 225-243

  Chen, Genda ^a   Mu, Huimin ^a   Pommerenke, David ^a   Drewniak, James L ^a  

^a University of Missouri Rolla   (United States)

Author keywords

Coaxial cables; Damage detection; Distributed crack strain sensors; Electrical time domain reflectometry; Reflection coefficient; Sensitivity; Spatial resolution

Indexed keywords

EID: 25144521553     PISSN: 14759217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1475921704045625     Document Type: Article

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