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Advances in Civil Engineering
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 813281, 14 pages
Structural Health Monitoring of Steel Pipes under Different Boundary Conditions and Choice of Signal Processing Techniques
1Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269, USA
2Department of Civil Engineering & Engineering Mechanics, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
Received 20 September 2011; Accepted 24 January 2012
Academic Editor: Piervincenzo Rizzo
Copyright © 2012 Rais Ahmad and Tribikram Kundu. 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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