<p>From many points of view, fiber optic sensors are the ideal transducers for civil structural monitoring. Being durable, stable and insensitive to external perturbations, they are particularly interesting for the long-term health assessment of civil structures. ...

<p>A new constitutive model is proposed for the description of induced anisotropic damage in brittle rocks. The formulation of the model is based on relevant results from the micromechanics consideration. The distribution of microcracks is approximated by ...