A piezopaint-based sensor for monitoring structure dynamics

Smart Materials and Structures

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 2571-2576

  Lahtinen, R ^a   Muukkonen, T ^a   Koskinen, J ^a   Hannula, S P ^a,b   Heczko, O ^b  

^a VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND   (Finland)

^b AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTIMIZATION; PEDESTRIAN SAFETY; PIEZOELECTRIC MATERIALS; SENSORS; STEEL BEAMS AND GIRDERS; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY;

OPTIMIZED EPOXY PIEZOPAINT; PIEZOCERAMIC MATERIALS; PIEZOCERAMIC POWDER; STRUCTURE DYNAMICS;

PIEZOELECTRIC DEVICES;

EID: 36448943256     PISSN: 09641726     EISSN: 1361665X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0964-1726/16/6/061     Document Type: Article

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