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Moisture Measurement in Masonry Materials Using Active Distributed Optical Fiber Sensors

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Sensors (CNS 2016)

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A Brillouin Optical time-domain analysis (BOTDA) sensor has been used to perform distributed temperature measurements along a fiber optic cable with an electrically conductive armoring heated via electrical resistance. The thermal response of a fibre-optic probe put in contact with yellow tuff samples at different moisture content is measured by the BOTDA sensor, paving the way to distributed measurements of moisture content in masonry materials.

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  1. Department of Industrial and Information Engineering, Seconda Università di Napoli, Via Roma 29, Aversa, CE, Italy

    Aldo Minardo, Ester Catalano & Luigi Zeni

  2. Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile Design Edilizia e Ambiente, Seconda Università degli Studi di Napoli, Via Roma 29, 81031, Aversa, Italy

    Luigi Mollo & Roberto Greco

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  1. University of Catania, Catania, Italy

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  2. IFAC-CNR, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy

    Francesco Baldini

  3. University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy

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  4. University of Florence, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy

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  5. IMM-CNR, Lecce, Italy

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Minardo, A., Catalano, E., Mollo, L., Greco, R., Zeni, L. (2018). Moisture Measurement in Masonry Materials Using Active Distributed Optical Fiber Sensors. In: Andò, B., Baldini, F., Di Natale, C., Marrazza, G., Siciliano, P. (eds) Sensors. CNS 2016. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 431. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55077-0_20

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