Self-Powered Sensors for Monitoring of Highway Bridges

IEEE Sensors Journal

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1422-1429

  Sazonov, Edward ^a   Pillay, Pragasen ^a   Li, Haodong ^b   Curry, Darrell ^a  

^a Clarkson University   (United States)

^b Clarkson University   (United States)

Author keywords

Energy harvesting; structural health monitoring; wireless sensors

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008014327     PISSN: 1530437X     EISSN: 15581748     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2009.2019333     Document Type: Article

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