Passive health monitoring of pressurized sensing lines

5th International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Plant Instrumentation Controls, and Human Machine Interface Technology (NPIC and HMIT 2006)

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 1091-1098

  Holbert, Keith E ^a   Lin, Kang ^a  

^a Arizona State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRICAL HYDRAULIC ANALOGY; PRESSURIZED SENSING LINES; SYSTEM TRANSFER FUNCTION;

ALGORITHMS; FAULT DETECTION; HYDRAULICS; IDENTIFICATION (CONTROL SYSTEMS); MEMS; PRESSURE TRANSDUCERS; SMART SENSORS;

STRUCTURAL HEALTH MONITORING;

EID: 34047168364     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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