A carbon nanotube strain sensor for structural health monitoring

Smart Materials and Structures

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 737-748

  Kang, Inpil ^a   Schulz, Mark J ^a   Kim, Jay H ^a   Shanov, Vesselin ^b   Shi, Donglu ^b  

^a University of Cincinnati   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; CARBON NANOTUBES; DATA ACQUISITION; HEALTH CARE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STRAIN MEASUREMENT;

STRAIN SENSITIVITY; STRAIN TESTING;

SENSORS;

EID: 33646858130     PISSN: 09641726     EISSN: 1361665X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0964-1726/15/3/009     Document Type: Article

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