Flood member detection for real-time structural health monitoring of sub-sea structures of offshore steel oilrigs

Smart Materials and Structures

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1857-1869

  Mijarez, Rito ^a   Gaydecki, Patrick ^b   Burdekin, Michael ^c  

^a INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES ELÉCTRICAS   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c Fatigue Monitoring Bureau   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OFFSHORE STRUCTURES; PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSDUCERS; STEEL STRUCTURES; STRUCTURAL HEALTH MONITORING; THICKNESS MEASUREMENT; X RAYS;

OFFSHORE STEEL OILRIGS; STRUCTURAL FLOOD DETECTION SYSTEMS;

OFFSHORE OIL FIELDS;

EID: 39749176298     PISSN: 09641726     EISSN: 1361665X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0964-1726/16/5/042     Document Type: Article

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