Identification of defects and strain error estimation for bending steel beams using time domain Brillouin distributed optical fiber sensors

Smart Materials and Structures

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 612-622

  Bernini, R ^a   Fraldi, M ^b   Minardo, A ^c   Minutolo, V ^c   Carannante, F ^b   Nunziante, L ^b   Zeni, L ^c  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ELECTROMAGNETIC SENSING OF THE ENVIRONMENT   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^c SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENDING (DEFORMATION); BRILLOUIN SCATTERING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL SENSORS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

DISTRIBUTED OPTICAL FIBER SENSORS; POLYMERIC JACKETS; QUALITATIVE RESPONSES; STRAIN ERROR ESTIMATION;

STEEL BEAMS AND GIRDERS;

EID: 33645039213     PISSN: 09641726     EISSN: 1361665X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0964-1726/15/2/045     Document Type: Article

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