Long range extensometer for civil structure monitoring using fibre Bragg gratings

Measurement Science and Technology

Volumn 16, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 2005-2010

  Gnewuch, Harald ^a   Smeu, Emil ^b   Jackson, David A ^a   Podoleanu, Adrian Gh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY POLITEHNICA OF BUCHAREST   (Romania)

Author keywords

Civil structure monitoring; Displacement; Extensometer; Fibre Bragg grating; Strain

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; DILATOMETERS; FUNCTIONS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; STRUCTURES (BUILT OBJECTS); VECTORS;

CIVIL STRUCTURE MONITORING; DISPLACEMENT; FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS (FBG);

MONITORING;

MEASUREMENT METHOD;

EID: 25644439206     PISSN: 09570233     EISSN: 09570233     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-0233/16/10/016     Document Type: Article

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