Strain Measurement on a Rail Bridge Loaded to Failure Using a Fiber Bragg Grating-Based Distributed Sensor System

IEEE Sensors Journal

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 2059-2065

  Taljsten B ^b   Leighton, J ^a   Boyle, W J O ^a   Gebremichael, Y M ^a   Sun, Tong ^a   Grattan, K T V ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Bragg grating; carbon fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP); strain measurement; test to destruction

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008025335     PISSN: 1530437X     EISSN: 15581748     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2008.2006704     Document Type: Article

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