Monitoring of water content in building materials using a wireless passive sensor

Sensors

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 4270-4280

  Stojanović, Goran ^a   Radovanović, Milan ^a   Malešev, Mirjana ^a   Radonjanin, Vlastimir ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOVI SAD   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Building materials; Humidity; LC sensor; Wireless

Indexed keywords

AUTOCLAVED AERATED CONCRETE BLOCKS; INNOVATIVE DESIGN; ITS APPLICATIONS; LC SENSOR; PASSIVE SENSOR; PRESENCE OF WATER; ROOM TEMPERATURE; TEST MATERIALS;

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; BUILDING MATERIALS; CONCRETE BLOCKS; CONCRETES; DESIGN; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; RADIO; SENSORS;

HUMIDITY CONTROL;

EID: 77953531869     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s100504270     Document Type: Article

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