Online monitoring of the distributed lateral displacement in large AC power generators using a high spatial resolution Brillouin optical fiber sensor

Smart Materials and Structures

Volumn 20, Issue 11, 2011, Pages

  Dong, Yongkang ^a   Bao, Xiaoyi ^a   Chen, Liang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AC POWER GENERATORS; BRILLOUIN; DIFFERENTIAL PULSE; DISTRIBUTED OPTICAL FIBER SENSORS; ELECTRICAL FIELD; HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION; KEY COMPONENT; LATERAL DISPLACEMENTS; MAXIMUM DISPLACEMENT; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; ONLINE MONITORING; OPTICAL FIBER SENSOR; PULSEWIDTHS; SAFE OPERATING CONDITIONS; SHAPE FUNCTIONS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; STATOR COIL; STRAIN-DISPLACEMENT RELATION;

AC GENERATOR MOTORS; COMPOSITE STRUCTURES; GLASS FIBERS; IMAGE RESOLUTION; OPTICAL FIBERS; PARTIAL DISCHARGES; SENSORS; STRAIN MEASUREMENT; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

MONITORING;

EID: 80155122603     PISSN: 09641726     EISSN: 1361665X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0964-1726/20/11/115001     Document Type: Article

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