Monitoring the new circular pedestrian steel bridge over the São Roque and Botirões channels with weldable fiber-Bragg grating sensors

Optics InfoBase Conference Papers

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Barbosa, C ^a   Costa, N ^a   Ferreira, L A ^a,b   Araujo F M ^a,b   Varum, H ^c   Costa, A ^c  

^a FiberSensing SA   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS; FIBER OPTIC SENSORS; FOOTBRIDGES;

FIBER BRAGG GRATING SENSORS; INSTALLATION PROCEDURES; PEDESTRIAN STEEL BRIDGES; STRAIN AND TEMPERATURE SENSORS;

STEEL FIBERS;

EID: 36549085366     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21622701     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1364/ofs.2006.mf4     Document Type: Conference Paper

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