Cement-based sensors with carbon fibers and carbon nanotubes for piezoresistive sensing

Cement and Concrete Composites

Volumn 34, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 866-873

  Azhari, Faezeh ^a   Banthia, Nemkumar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Carbon fibers; Carbon nanotubes; Cement based sensors; Electrical resistivity; Piezoresistivity; Self sensing materials; Structural health monitoring

Indexed keywords

APPLIED LOADS; ARBITRARY LOADING; CEMENT-BASED; CEMENTITIOUS COMPOSITES; COMPRESSIVE LOADS; CYCLIC LOADINGS; ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY; ELECTRICALLY CONDUCTIVE; HIGH FIDELITY; PIEZORESISTIVE SENSING; PIEZORESISTIVITY; RATE DEPENDENT; SELF-SENSING;

CARBON NANOTUBES; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; LOADING; SENSORS; STRUCTURAL HEALTH MONITORING;

CARBON FIBERS;

EID: 84861345555     PISSN: 09589465     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cemconcomp.2012.04.007     Document Type: Article

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