Monitoring fatigue crack growth and opening using antenna sensors

Smart Materials and Structures

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2010, Pages

  Mohammad, I ^a   Huang, H ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Arlington   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA FREQUENCY; ANTENNA SENSORS; COMPACT TENSION SPECIMEN; CRACK GROWTH; CRACK OPENING; DUAL FREQUENCY; ELECTRICAL LENGTH; EXPERIMENTAL PROCEDURE; FATIGUE CRACK GROWTH; FATIGUE CRACKING; FATIGUE CRACKS; GROUND PLANES; HIGH SENSITIVITY; LOADBEARING STRUCTURE; MICRO-STRIP PATCH ANTENNAS; PATCH ANTENNA; RESONANT FREQUENCIES; RESONANT FREQUENCY SHIFT; SENSOR FABRICATION; SUB-MILLIMETER RESOLUTIONS;

ANTENNA GROUNDS; ANTENNA RADIATION; CRACK CLOSURE; FAILURE ANALYSIS; FATIGUE CRACK PROPAGATION; FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; FATIGUE TESTING; MICROSTRIP ANTENNAS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; SENSORS; SPECIMEN PREPARATION;

CRACK DETECTION;

EID: 77951237136     PISSN: 09641726     EISSN: 1361665X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0964-1726/19/5/055023     Document Type: Article

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