Towards chipless RFID-based sensing for pervasive surface crack detection

2012 IEEE International Conference on RFID-Technologies and Applications, RFID-TA 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 46-51

  Kalansuriya, P ^a   Bhattacharyya, R ^b   Sarma, S ^b   Karmakar, N ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chipless RFID; crack localization; TDOA; transmission line

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTER SIGNALS; CRACK LENGTH; CRACK LOCALIZATION; DATA EXTRACTION; DESIGN TECHNIQUE; HEALTH MONITORING; PROOF OF CONCEPT; RFID SENSORS; SENSOR DESIGNS; SENSOR SENSITIVITY; SIGNAL FIDELITY; SURFACE CRACK DETECTION; SURFACE CRACKS; TDOA;

CRACKS; ELECTRIC LINES; SURFACE DEFECTS;

SENSORS;

EID: 84873179177     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/RFID-TA.2012.6404565     Document Type: Conference Paper

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