Wireless strain and crack sensing using a folded patch antenna

Proceedings of 6th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, EuCAP 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1678-1681

  Yi, Xiaohua ^a   Cho, Chunhee ^a   Fang, Chia Hung ^a   Cooper, James ^a   Lakafosis, Vasileios ^a   Vyas, Rushi ^a   Wang, Yang ^a   Leon, Roberto T ^a   Tentzeris, Manos M ^a  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

antenna sensor; crack sensing; Folded patch antenna; RFID; wireless strain sensing

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA OPERATION; ANTENNA SENSORS; CRACK SENSING; FOLDED-PATCH ANTENNA; LARGE STRAINS; METALLIC STRUCTURES; RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION CHIPS; RESONANCE FREQUENCIES; SIGNAL MODULATIONS; SMALL STRAINS; STRAIN SENSING; SUBMILLIMETERS; TENSILE TESTS; WIRELESS ANTENNA;

CRACKS; MICROSTRIP ANTENNAS; RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION (RFID); SENSORS; STRAIN; TENSILE TESTING;

CRACK DETECTION;

EID: 84862864592     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/EuCAP.2012.6206690     Document Type: Conference Paper

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