Concrete structural health monitoring using embedded piezoceramic transducers

Smart Materials and Structures

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 959-968

  Song, G ^a   Gu, H ^a   Mo, Y L ^a   Hsu, T T C ^a   Dhonde, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COST ACCOUNTING; CRACK PROPAGATION; DAMAGE DETECTION; MAINTAINABILITY; PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSDUCERS; REINFORCED CONCRETE; SENSORS;

ACTIVE SENSING; CONCRETE STRUCTURAL HEALTH MONITORING; EMBEDDED PIEZOCERAMIC TRANSDUCERS; LARGE SCALE CIVIL INFRASTRUCTURES;

CONCRETE BRIDGES;

EID: 34547476081     PISSN: 09641726     EISSN: 1361665X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0964-1726/16/4/003     Document Type: Article

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