Building stone condition monitoring using specially designed compensated optical fiber humidity sensors

IEEE Sensors Journal

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1011-1017

  Sun, Tong ^a   Grattan, Kenneth T V ^a   Srinivasan, Sudarshan ^b   Basheer, P A M ^b   Smith, Bernard J ^b   Viles, Heather A ^c  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Building stone monitoring; humidity sensor; optical fiber sensor; temperature compensation

Indexed keywords

BUILDING STONE; CONVENTIONAL SENSORS; EXPERIMENTAL CONDITIONS; NEW CONSTRUCTIONS; OPTICAL FIBER SENSOR; TEMPERATURE COMPENSATION; UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD; WATER INGRESS; WETTING AND DRYING; WETTING AND DRYING CYCLES;

CONDITION MONITORING; FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS; HUMIDITY SENSORS; WALLS (STRUCTURAL PARTITIONS);

BUILDING MATERIALS;

EID: 84859790270     PISSN: 1530437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2011.2163504     Document Type: Conference Paper

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