Structural concrete condition monitoring using a long period grating-based humidity sensor

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7004, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Venugopalan, T ^a   Sun, T ^a   Grattan, K T V ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Humidity sensor; Long period grating; Polymer coating

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; CLADDING (COATING); COMPUTER NETWORKS; CONDITION MONITORING; DETECTORS; FIBER OPTIC SENSORS; FIBER OPTICS; FIBERS; FISH; HUMIDITY SENSORS; METEOROLOGY; MOISTURE; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL MATERIALS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; ORGANIC POLYMERS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SENSORS; TECHNOLOGY; THEOREM PROVING;

(I ,J) CONDITIONS; (OTDR) TECHNOLOGY; ATTENUATION BANDS; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONING; HUMIDITY LEVELS; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; LONG PERIOD GRATING (LPGS); MOISTURE INGRESS; OPTICAL (PET) (OPET); OPTICAL FIBRE SENSORS; POLYVINYL ALCOHOL (PVOL); STRUCTURAL CONCRETES; THIN LAYERING; TRANSMISSION SPECTRUMS; WAVE LENGTH SHIFTING;

OPTICAL SENSORS;

EID: 45549089680     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.786554     Document Type: Conference Paper

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