Fiber Bragg grating based shear-force sensor: Modeling and testing

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1728-1733

  Tjin, S C ^a   Suresh, R ^a   Ngo, N Q ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITE MATERIALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEFORMATION; FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FORCE MEASUREMENT; LAYERED MANUFACTURING; LIGHT REFLECTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTICAL TESTING; RUBBER;

REFLECTED BRAGG WAVELENGTH; SENSING ELEMENT; SHEAR FORCE SENSOR; SHEAR SENSING ABILITY; SILICON RUBBER;

FIBER OPTIC SENSORS;

EID: 3843084004     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2004.831171     Document Type: Article

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