Under NASA's Advanced Air Vehicles Program the Advanced Air Transport Technology (AATT) Project is investigating flutter effects on aeroelastic wings. To support that work a new method for measuring vibrations due to flutter has been developed. The method employs low power Surface Acoustic Wave (SAW) sensors. To demonstrate the ability of the SAW sensor to detect flutter vibrations the sensors were attached to a Carbon fiber-reinforced polymer (CFRP) composite panel which was vibrated at six frequencies from 1Hz to 50Hz. The SAW data was compared to accelerometer data and was found to resemble sine waves and match each other closely. The SAW module design and results from the tests are presented here.


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    Title :

    Surface Acoustic Wave Vibration Sensors for Measuring Aircraft Flutter


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    2016 IEEE International Conference on Prognostics and Health Management ; 2016 ; Ottawa, Ontario, Canada


    Publication date :

    2016-06-20


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English


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