An Antenna Sensor for Crack Detection and Monitoring
- 1 February 2011
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Advances in Structural Engineering
- Vol. 14 (1), 47-53
- https://doi.org/10.1260/1369-4332.14.1.47
Abstract
A major goal of structural health monitoring (SHM) is crack detection and monitoring. Because cracks are localized defects, quantifying the sizes and locations of the cracks would require placing many sensors over a large area. We present a crack sensor that is suitable for densely distributed sensor network because they can be remotely interrogated and do not need any wiring for data transmission or power supply. A rectangular patch antenna, consisting of a metallic patch on one side of a dielectric substrate and a ground plane on the other side of the substrate, is studied in this paper for crack detection and monitoring. The presence of a crack in the ground plane of the antenna changes its conductivity, which in turn reduces the resonant frequency of the antenna sensor. Experimental results demonstrated that the antenna sensor can monitor crack growth with sub-millimeter spatial resolution. Detailed experimental set-up and measurement results are presented.Keywords
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