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A preliminary research on wireless cantilever beam vibration sensor in bridge health monitoring

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According to specific bridge environment, optimal design piezoelectric cantilever beam structure by using results of theoretical calculations and simulation, verify natural frequencies of piezoelectric cantilever beam and production ability of data by experiment, thus formed a complete set of design method of piezoelectric cantilever beam. Considering natural frequency of vibration and intensity of the beam body, design a new type of piezoelectric cantilever beam structure. Paper analyzes the principle of sensor data acquisition and transmission, design a hardware integration system include signal conversion module, microcontroller module and wireless transmission module, test local read and wireless transmission for the combination structure of cantilever beam and data collection card, experimental verification of the radio piezoelectric vibrating cantilever vibration response is intact, the beam produced signal by vibration, acquisition card converts and wireless transmit data, this proved a good and intuitive linear response in simulation of bridge vibration test. Finally, the paper designed a kind of new wireless sensor of vibration cantilever beam, suitable for small bridge health monitoring based on Internet of things.

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This paper is supported by the state high-tech research and development plans (863), Grant No. 2014AA110402.

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  1. National Center for Materials Service Safety, Joint USTB-Virginia Tech Lab on Multifunctional Materials, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing, 100083, China

    Xinlong Tong, Shanglin Song, Linbing Wang & Hailu Yang

  2. Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, 24061, USA

    Linbing Wang

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Tong, X., Song, S., Wang, L. et al. A preliminary research on wireless cantilever beam vibration sensor in bridge health monitoring. Front. Struct. Civ. Eng. 12, 207–214 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11709-017-0406-x

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