Shielding effects of reinforced concrete structures to electromagnetic fields due to GSM and UMTS systems

Author

Antonini, Giulio ; Orlandi, Antonio ; D´elia, Stefano

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Univ. of L´´Aquila, Italy

Volume

39

Issue

3

fYear

2003

fDate

5/1/2003 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1582

Lastpage

1585

Abstract

The evaluation of the shielding effects produced by reinforced concrete walls toward electromagnetic (EM) fields radiated by radio base stations is an important topic due to the widespread diffusion of mobile phones. In this paper, a parametric analysis of the effects of the presence of multiple reinforced concrete walls on the shielding effectiveness is performed. Such analysis is carried out in the frequency domain and provides interesting insights into the EM field attenuation properties of the reinforced concrete structures.

Keywords

UHF radio propagation; cellular radio; concrete; electromagnetic fields; electromagnetic shielding; frequency-domain analysis; 1865 MHz; 948 MHz; EM field attenuation properties; GSM systems; UMTS systems; concrete structures; frequency domain; mobile communication; mobile phones; parametric analysis; propagation model; radiated EM fields; radio base stations; reinforced concrete walls; shielding effectiveness; shielding effects; 3G mobile communication; Base stations; Concrete; Electromagnetic fields; Electromagnetic radiation; Electromagnetic shielding; Frequency domain analysis; GSM; Mobile handsets; Performance analysis;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Magnetics, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9464

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TMAG.2003.810327

Filename

1198530