An outlier analysis of MFC-based impedance sensing data for wireless structural health monitoring of railroad tracks

Engineering Structures

Volumn 30, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 2792-2799

  Park, Seunghee ^a,b   Inman, Daniel J ^b   Yun, Chung Bang ^a  

^a Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

^b VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Impedance sensing; Macro fiber composite (MFC); Mahalanobis squared distance (MSD); Outlier analysis; Railroad tracks; Wireless structural health monitoring

Indexed keywords

FIBER OPTICS; HEALTH; MICROBIAL FUEL CELLS; RAIL LAYING; RAILROAD TRACKS; RAILROADS; STRUCTURAL HEALTH MONITORING; STRUCTURES (BUILT OBJECTS);

DETECTION CAPABILITY; EXTERNAL-; FEATURE VECTOR; FIBER COMPOSITES; IMPEDANCE SENSING; IMPEDANCE SIGNATURES; MACRO-FIBER COMPOSITE (MFC); MAHALANOBIS; MAHALANOBIS SQUARED DISTANCE (MSD); MEASURED IMPEDANCE; OPTIMAL THRESHOLD VALUES; OUTLIER ANALYSIS; PATCH BONDING; ROOT-MEAN-SQUARE DEVIATION; THRESHOLD LEVELS; WIRELESS STRUCTURAL HEALTH MONITORING;

DAMAGE DETECTION;

COMPOSITE; HEALTH MONITORING; OUTLIER; RAILWAY;

EID: 52749088957     PISSN: 01410296     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.engstruct.2008.02.019     Document Type: Article

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