On the feasibility of pressure profile measurements with time-domain reflectometry

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 467-474

  Scheuermann, Alexander ^a   Huebner, C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^b MANNHEIM UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Optimization methods; Pressure measurement; Time domain reflectometry (TDR); Transmission line measurements; Transmission lines

Indexed keywords

BANDPASS FILTERS; CONCRETE CONSTRUCTION; ELECTRIC CABLES; ELECTRIC LINES; GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING; GROUNDWATER; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING; MEASUREMENTS; METHOD OF MOMENTS; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; POWER TRANSMISSION; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; PRESSURE SENSORS; REFLECTION; REFLECTOMETERS; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SOIL MOISTURE; SOILS; TELECOMMUNICATION CABLES; TRANSMISSION LINE THEORY;

GEOTECHNICAL; GEOTECHNICAL MEASUREMENTS; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; LOAD CONDITIONS; MECHANICAL FORCES; OPTIMIZATION METHODS; PARTIAL REFLECTIONS; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; PRESSURE PROFILES; RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHMS; REFLECTION DATUM; REFLECTOMETRY; SINGLE POINTS; SOIL MOISTURE PROFILES; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTIONS; STEP PULSE; TDR SIGNALS; TIME DOMAINS; TIME-DOMAIN REFLECTOMETRY (TDR); TOTAL PRESSURES; TRANSMISSION LINE MEASUREMENTS; TRANSMISSION LINES;

TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

EID: 60149103481     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2008.928876     Document Type: Article

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