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Development and Test of High-Temperature Piezoelectric Wafer Active Sensors for Structural Health Monitoring

High-temperature piezoelectric wafer active sensors (HT-PWAS) have been developed for structure health monitoring at hazard environments for decades. Different candidates have previously been tested under 270 °C and a new piezoelectric material langasite (LGS) was chosen here for a pilot study up to 700 °C. A preliminary study was performed to develop a high temperature sensor that utilizes langasite material. The Electromechanical impedance (E/M) method was chosen to detect the piezoelectric property. Experiments that verify the basic piezoelectric property of LGS at high temperature environments were carried out. Further validations were conducted by testing structures with attached LGS sensors at elevated temperature. Additionally, a detection system simulating the working process of LGS monitoring system was developed with PZT material at room temperature. This thesis, for the first time, (to the best of author’s knowledge) presents that langasite is ideal for making piezoelectric wafer active sensors for high temperature structure health monitoring applications.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc799504
Date12 1900
CreatorsBao, Yuanye
ContributorsZhang, Haifeng, Nasrazadani, Seifollah, Wang, Shuping
PublisherUniversity of North Texas
Source SetsUniversity of North Texas
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis or Dissertation
Formatvii, 48 pages : illustrations (some color), Text
RightsPublic, Bao, Yuanye, Copyright, Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved.

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