A carbon nanotube/cement composite with piezoresistive properties

Smart Materials and Structures

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2009, Pages

  Yu, Xun ^a   Kwon, Eil ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA DULUTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

A-CARBON; CIVIL STRUCTURE; DOPING LEVELS; ELECTRICAL RESISTANCES; FABRICATION METHOD; PIEZO-RESISTIVE; PIEZORESISTIVE PROPERTIES; STRESS RESPONSE; STRESS SENSOR;

SENSORS; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 68549128913     PISSN: 09641726     EISSN: 1361665X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0964-1726/18/5/055010     Document Type: Article

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