Advances in Civil Engineering
Volume 2010 (2010), Article ID 253274, 8 pages
doi:10.1155/2010/253274
Research Article

An FBG-Based Impact Event Detection System for Structural Health Monitoring

C. S. Shin,1 B. L. Chen,1 and S. K. Liaw1,2

1Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei 10617, Taiwan
2Department of Electronic Engineering, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei 106, Taiwan

Received 1 September 2009; Revised 5 December 2009; Accepted 26 January 2010

Academic Editor: Yi Qing Ni

Copyright © 2010 C. S. Shin et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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