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8 April 2010 A MEMS based measurement system for structure health monitoring applications
Soeren Majcherek, Soeren Hirsch, Bertram Schmidt
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Abstract
The structure health monitoring becomes more and more important to increase the reliability of important assemblies and structures. Therefore, a silicon test chip was developed to analyse acting mechanical loads at critical structure locations. Standard MEMS technologies are used for manufacturing an array structure of stress sensitive elements. Up to 16 sections with each 6 stress sensitive resistors can be measured continuously by one measurement hardware unit. Interpretation and correction of the measured raw data is performed in proper computer software. The whole system can be utilized as a self-sufficient measurement chain for structure health monitoring.
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Soeren Majcherek, Soeren Hirsch, and Bertram Schmidt "A MEMS based measurement system for structure health monitoring applications", Proc. SPIE 7650, Health Monitoring of Structural and Biological Systems 2010, 76501R (8 April 2010); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.846736
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KEYWORDS
Resistors

Silicon

Resistance

Microelectromechanical systems

Semiconducting wafers

Manufacturing

Etching

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