Dynamic monitoring of a mobile telecommunications tower with a bi-axial optical FBG accelerometer

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8001, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Antunes, Paulo ^a,b   Travanca, Rui ^c   Varum, Humberto ^c   André, Paulo ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTO DE TELECOMUNICAÇÕES   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO   (Portugal)

^c ETM Search and Selection   (Portugal)

Author keywords

accelerometers; Dynamic structural health monitoring; optical sensors; radio communication towers

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION DATA; DYNAMIC MONITORING; MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS; NUMERICAL MODELS; OPTICAL FBG; RADIO COMMUNICATION TOWERS; RESONANT MODE; STEEL TOWERS; STRUCTURAL BEHAVIORS;

ACCELEROMETERS; FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; OPTICS; PHOTONICS; RADIO COMMUNICATION; TOWERS;

STRUCTURAL HEALTH MONITORING;

EID: 80052307963     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.892216     Document Type: Conference Paper

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