Circular microstrip patch antenna strain sensor for wireless structural health monitoring

WCE 2010 - World Congress on Engineering 2010

Volumn 2, Issue , 2010, Pages 1173-1178

  Daliri, Ali ^a   Galehdar, Amir ^a   John, Sabu ^a   Rowe, Wayne ^a   Ghorbani, Kamran ^a  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Microstrip antenna; Strain sensor; Structural health monitoring; Wireless sensor

Indexed keywords

CIRCULAR MICROSTRIP PATCH; CIRCULAR PATCH ANTENNA; EXPERIMENTAL TEST; LINEAR RELATIONSHIPS; SMALL DAMAGE; STRAIN AND FREQUENCY; STRAIN SENSOR; STRAIN SENSORS; STRUCTURAL HEALTH; THEORETICAL MODELS; WIRELESS SENSOR; WIRELESS STRUCTURAL HEALTH MONITORING;

DAMAGE DETECTION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MICROSTRIP ANTENNAS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; SENSORS;

STRUCTURAL HEALTH MONITORING;

EID: 79959849557     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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