Wireless transmission for health monitoring of large structures

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 972-981

  Wang, Dai Hua ^a,b   Liao, Wei Hsin ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b CHONGQING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Frequency to voltage (F V) conversion; Health monitoring; Large structures; Voltage to frequency (V F) conversion; Wireless transmission

Indexed keywords

MONITORING; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; SIGNAL RECEIVERS; STRUCTURES (BUILT OBJECTS); TRANSMITTERS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

HEALTH MONITORING; LARGE STRUCTURE; SIGNAL RETRIEVAL SYSTEM; WIRELESS-TRANSMISSION SYSTEM;

SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 33744539111     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2006.873801     Document Type: Article

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