Monitoring of Corrosion in Structural Reinforcing Bars: Performance Comparison Using In Situ Fiber-Optic and Electric Wire Strain Gauge Systems

IEEE Sensors Journal

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1494-1502

  Grattan, Simon K T ^a   Taylor, Su E ^a   Basheer, P A M ^a   Sun, Tong ^b   Grattan, Kenneth T V ^b  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Corrosion monitoring; fiber optic sensors (FOSs); strain measurement

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008028737     PISSN: 1530437X     EISSN: 15581748     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2009.2019348     Document Type: Article

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