A virtual instrumentation based system for mechanical and thermal measurements on the tallest medieval bell-tower in Europe

VIMS 2002 - 2002 IEEE International Symposium on Virtual and Intelligent Measurement Systems: Distributed Intelligent Sensing for Advanced Integrated Virtual Environments

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 7-12

  Moschioni, G ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

LVDT; Tower; vibrations; virtual instruments; wind

Indexed keywords

BELLS; DATA ACQUISITION; DIGITAL INSTRUMENTS; TOWERS; VIRTUAL REALITY; WIND; XML;

LVDT; MEASUREMENTS OF; ON-LINE ANALYSIS; THERMAL MEASUREMENTS; THERMAL PARAMETERS; VIBRATIONS; VIRTUAL INSTRUMENT; VIRTUAL INSTRUMENTATION;

AUTOMOBILE ENGINES;

EID: 84961662049     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/VIMS.2002.1009349     Document Type: Conference Paper

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