On the Autonomous Gain and Phase Tailoring Transfer Functions of Symmetrically Distributed Piezoelectric Sensors

A new design concept for a distributed sensor, which was developed based on the principle that the strain distribution of an arbitrary finite plate structure can be expressed as the superposition of even and odd strain functions, is presented. The distributed sensors adopt a symmetric weighting electrode to match the symmetric distribution of the even parts of the strain in order to introduce a no-phase delay low-pass filter to tailor the sensor transfer function. Both the design concept and the experimental results are detailed herein. @DOI: 10.1115/1.1804994#

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