Detection of buckling in steel pipeline and column by the distributed Brillouin sensor

Optical Fiber Technology

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 305-311

  Ravet, Fabien ^a   Zou, Lufan ^a   Bao, Xiaoyi ^a   Chen, Liang ^a   Huang, Rong Feng ^b   Khoo, Heng Aik ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Distributed Brillouin sensor; Strain sensor; Structural health monitoring

Indexed keywords

BUCKLING; PIPELINES; SENSORS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; STEEL; STRAIN GAGES; TENSILE TESTING;

COLUMN BUCKLING; DISTRIBUTED BRILLOUIN SENSORS; STRAIN SENSORS; STRUCTURAL HEALTH MONITORING;

OPTICAL SENSORS;

EID: 33748413764     PISSN: 10685200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yofte.2005.12.002     Document Type: Article

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