Development of an electrical time domain reflectometry (ETDR) distributed moisture measurement technique for porous media

Measurement Science and Technology

Volumn 17, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 2989-2996

  Khoshbakht, Mehran ^a   Lin, Mark W ^a  

^a University of Alabama in Huntsville ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Moisture measurement; Porous media; TDR

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CALIBRATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MOISTURE;

FIBRE REINFORCED POLYMER LAMINATES; MOISTURE MEASUREMENT;

MOISTURE DETERMINATION;

ALGORITHMS; CALIBRATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MOISTURE; MOISTURE DETERMINATION;

EID: 33846070665     PISSN: 09570233     EISSN: 13616501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-0233/17/11/019     Document Type: Article

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