TY - JOUR
T1 - Passive low-cost inkjet-printed smart skin sensor for structural health monitoring
AU - Cook, Benjamin Stassen
AU - Shamim, Atif
AU - Tentzeris, Manos
N1 - KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2020-10-01
Acknowledgements: This work has been supported by NSF-ECS and IFC/SRC.
PY - 2012/11/20
Y1 - 2012/11/20
N2 - Monitoring fatigue cracking of large engineering structures is a costly and time-intensive process. The authors' present the first low-cost inkjet-printed patch antenna sensor that can passively detect crack formation, orientation and shape by means of resonant frequency shifts in the two resonant modes of the antenna. For the first time, the effect of non-linear crack shapes on the parallel and perpendicular resonant modes of a patch antenna is quantified with simulation and measurement. This study presents a step towards fully integrated, low-cost, conformal and environmentally friendly smart skins for real-time monitoring of large structures. © The Institution of Engineering and Technology 2012.
AB - Monitoring fatigue cracking of large engineering structures is a costly and time-intensive process. The authors' present the first low-cost inkjet-printed patch antenna sensor that can passively detect crack formation, orientation and shape by means of resonant frequency shifts in the two resonant modes of the antenna. For the first time, the effect of non-linear crack shapes on the parallel and perpendicular resonant modes of a patch antenna is quantified with simulation and measurement. This study presents a step towards fully integrated, low-cost, conformal and environmentally friendly smart skins for real-time monitoring of large structures. © The Institution of Engineering and Technology 2012.
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10754/562418
UR - http://mr.crossref.org/iPage?doi=10.1049%2Fiet-map.2012.0188
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84876045196&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1049/iet-map.2012.0188
DO - 10.1049/iet-map.2012.0188
M3 - Article
SN - 1751-8725
VL - 6
SP - 1536
EP - 1541
JO - IET Microwaves, Antennas & Propagation
JF - IET Microwaves, Antennas & Propagation
IS - 14
ER -