Monitoring the Injection Process of Resin Transfer Molding with Fiber Bragg Gratings

LU Shao-wei; GAO Yu; ZHANG Hai-jun; WANG Ji-jie

doi:10.3969/j.issn.1003-501x.2012.10.013

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