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Paper Abstract
Wireless smart sensor technology offers many opportunities to advance infrastructure monitoring and maintenance by
providing pertinent information regarding the condition of a structure at a lower cost and higher density than traditional
monitoring approaches. Many civil structures, especially long-span bridges, have low fundamental response frequencies
that are challenging to accurately measure with sensors that are suitable for integration with low-cost, low-profile, and
power-constrained wireless sensor networks. Existing displacement sensing technology is either not practical for
wireless sensor implementations, does not provide the necessary accuracy, or is simply too cost-prohibitive for dense
sensor deployments. This paper presents the development and integration of an accurate, low-cost radar-based sensor for
the enhancement of low-frequency vibration-based bridge monitoring and the measurement of static bridge deflections.
The sensors utilize both a nonlinear vibrometer mode and an arctangent-demodulated interferometry mode to achieve
sub-millimeter measurement accuracy for both periodic and non-periodic displacement. Experimental validation results
are presented and discussed.
Paper Details
Date Published: 13 April 2011
PDF: 11 pages
Proc. SPIE 7981, Sensors and Smart Structures Technologies for Civil, Mechanical, and Aerospace Systems 2011, 79810K (13 April 2011); doi: 10.1117/12.879243
Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 7981:
Sensors and Smart Structures Technologies for Civil, Mechanical, and Aerospace Systems 2011
Masayoshi Tomizuka, Editor(s)
PDF: 11 pages
Proc. SPIE 7981, Sensors and Smart Structures Technologies for Civil, Mechanical, and Aerospace Systems 2011, 79810K (13 April 2011); doi: 10.1117/12.879243
Show Author Affiliations
Changzhan Gu, Texas Tech Univ. (United States)
Justin C. Hernandez, Texas Tech Univ. (United States)
Justin C. Hernandez, Texas Tech Univ. (United States)
Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 7981:
Sensors and Smart Structures Technologies for Civil, Mechanical, and Aerospace Systems 2011
Masayoshi Tomizuka, Editor(s)
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