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Capacitance-based wireless strain sensor development
Proceedings of SPIE
  • Jong-Hyun Jeong, University of Arizona
  • Jian Xu, Wuhan Polytechnic University
  • Hongki Jo, University of Arizona
  • Jian Li, University of Kansas
  • Xiangxiong Kong, University of Kansas
  • William Collins, University of Kansas
  • Caroline Bennett, University of Kansas
  • Simon Laflamme, Iowa State University
Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Conference
Sensors and Smart Structures Technologies for Civil, Mechanical, and Aerospace Systems 2018
Publication Version
Published Version
Publication Date
3-27-2018
DOI
10.1117/12.2296716
Conference Title
SPIE Smart Structures and Materials + Nondestructive Evaluation and Health Monitoring
Conference Date
March 4-8, 2018
Geolocation
(39.7392358, -104.990251)
Abstract

A capacitance based large-area electronics strain sensor, termed soft elastomeric capacitor (SEC) has shown various advantages in infrastructure sensing. The ability to cover large area enables to reflect mesoscale structural deformation, highly stretchable, easy to fabricate and low-cost feature allow full-scale field application for civil structure. As continuing efforts to realize full-scale civil infrastructure monitoring, in this study, new sensor board has been developed to implement the capacitive strain sensing capability into wireless sensor networks. The SEC has extremely low-level capacitance changes as responses to structural deformation; hence it requires high-gain and low-noise performance. For these requirements, AC (alternating current) based Wheatstone bridge circuit has been developed in combination a bridge balancer, two-step amplifiers, AM-demodulation, and series of filtering circuits to convert low-level capacitance changes to readable analog voltages. The new sensor board has been designed to work with the wireless platform that uses Illinois Structural Health Monitoring Project (ISHMP) wireless sensing software Toolsuite and allow 16bit lownoise data acquisition. The performances of new wireless capacitive strain sensor have been validated series of laboratory calibration tests. An example application for fatigue crack monitoring is also presented.

Comments

This proceeding is published as Jong-Hyun Jeong, Jian Xu, Hongki Jo, Jian Li, Xiangxiong Kong, William Collins, Caroline Bennett, Simon Laflamme, "Capacitance-based wireless strain sensor development," Proc. SPIE 10598, Sensors and Smart Structures Technologies for Civil, Mechanical, and Aerospace Systems 2018, 105980S (27 March 2018); doi: 10.1117/12.2296716. Posted with permission.

Copyright Owner
Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE)
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Citation Information
Jong-Hyun Jeong, Jian Xu, Hongki Jo, Jian Li, et al.. "Capacitance-based wireless strain sensor development" Denver, COProceedings of SPIE Vol. 10598 (2018) p. 10598OS
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/simon_laflamme/90/