A self-sensing carbon nanotube/cement composite for traffic monitoring

Nanotechnology

Volumn 20, Issue 44, 2009, Pages

  Han, Baoguo ^a,b   Yu, Xun ^a   Kwon, Eil ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA DULUTH   (United States)

^b HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOTUBES; TRAFFIC CONTROL;

CNT/CEMENT COMPOSITES; COMPRESSIVE LOADING; MECHANICAL STRESS; MOTION MEASUREMENTS; PIEZORESISTIVE PROPERTIES; TRAFFIC FLOW DETECTIONS; TRAFFIC MONITORING; VEHICLE SPEED DETECTION;

MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN);

EID: 85104873314     PISSN: 09574484     EISSN: 13616528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/20/44/445501     Document Type: Article

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