Fibre optic relative humidity sensors for long-term monitoring of concrete structures

Structural Health Monitoring of Intelligent Infrastructure - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Structural Health Monitoring of Intelligent Infrastructure, SHMII 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Srinivasan, S ^a   Taylor, S E ^a   Basheer, P A M ^a   Smith, B J ^a   Sun, T ^b   Grattan, K T V ^b  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSIVE ENVIRONMENT; DETERIORATION PROCESS; HARDENED CONCRETE; HEALTH MONITORING TECHNIQUE; LONG TERM MONITORING; MONITORING APPLICATIONS; PACKAGING TECHNIQUES; SENSING TECHNIQUES;

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; CONCRETE BUILDINGS; CONCRETE CONSTRUCTION; CONCRETES; DETERIORATION; MONITORING; PROBES; SENSORS; STRUCTURAL HEALTH MONITORING;

MOISTURE CONTROL;

EID: 84896869409     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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