Sensing capabilities of multifunctional composite materials using carbon nanotubes

61st International Astronautical Congress 2010, IAC 2010

Volumn 13, Issue , 2010, Pages 11004-11012

  Baltopoulos, Athanasios ^a,b   Polydorides, Nick ^c   Vavouliotis, Antonios ^b   Kostopoulos, Vassilis ^b   Pambaguian, Laurent ^a  

^a EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^c CYPRUS INSTITUTE   (Cyprus)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DAMAGE LOCATION; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTRICAL TOMOGRAPHY; HIGH POTENTIAL; MACRO SCALE; MASS REDUCTION; MULTIFUNCTIONAL COMPOSITES; NANO-SCALE MATERIALS; REINFORCED GLASS; SELF-SENSING;

CARBON NANOTUBES; GLASS FIBERS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; TOMOGRAPHY;

COMPOSITE MATERIALS;

CARBON; COMPOSITES; GLASS FIBERS; REINFORCED PLASTIC; REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 79959389638     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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