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Cao S, Pyatt S, Anthony CJ, et al. Flexible Bond Wire Capacitive Strain Sensor for Vehicle Tyres. Sensors (Basel). 2016;16(6)doi: 10.3390/s16060929.
Cao, S., Pyatt, S., Anthony, C. J., Kubba, A. I., Kubba, A. E., & Olatunbosun, O. (2016). Flexible Bond Wire Capacitive Strain Sensor for Vehicle Tyres. Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 16(6), . https://doi.org/10.3390/s16060929
Cao, Siyang, et al. "Flexible Bond Wire Capacitive Strain Sensor for Vehicle Tyres." Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) vol. 16,6 (2016). doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/s16060929
Cao S, Pyatt S, Anthony CJ, Kubba AI, Kubba AE, Olatunbosun O. Flexible Bond Wire Capacitive Strain Sensor for Vehicle Tyres. Sensors (Basel). 2016 Jun 21;16(6). doi: 10.3390/s16060929. PMID: 27338402; PMCID: PMC4934354.
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Sensors (Basel). 2016 Jun 21;16(6). doi: 10.3390/s16060929.

Flexible Bond Wire Capacitive Strain Sensor for Vehicle Tyres.

Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)

Siyang Cao, Simon Pyatt, Carl J Anthony, Ammar I Kubba, Ali E Kubba, Oluremi Olatunbosun

Affiliations

  1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK. [email protected].
  2. School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK. [email protected].
  3. Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK. [email protected].
  4. Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK. [email protected].
  5. Fusion Innovations Ltd., Research and Innovation Services, Birmingham Research Park, Vincent Drive, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2SQ, UK. [email protected].
  6. Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK. [email protected].

PMID: 27338402 PMCID: PMC4934354 DOI: 10.3390/s16060929

Abstract

The safety of the driving experience and manoeuvrability of a vehicle can be improved by detecting the strain in tyres. To measure strain accurately in rubber, the strain sensor needs to be flexible so that it does not deform the medium that it is measuring. In this work, a novel flexible bond wire capacitive strain sensor for measuring the strain in tyres is developed, fabricated and calibrated. An array of 25 micron diameter wire bonds in an approximately 8 mm × 8 mm area is built to create an interdigitated structure, which consists of 50 wire loops resulting in 49 capacitor pairs in parallel. Laser machining was used to pattern copper on a flexible printed circuit board PCB to make the bond pads for the wire attachment. The wire array was finally packaged and embedded in polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS), which acts as the structural material that is strained. The capacitance of the device is in a linear like relationship with respect to the strain, which can measure the strain up to at least ±60,000 micro-strain (±6%) with a resolution of ~132 micro-strain (0.013%). In-tyre testing under static loading has shown the ability of the sensor to measure large tyre strains. The technology used for sensor fabrication lends itself to mass production and so the design is considered to be consistent with low cost commercialisable strain sensing technology.

Keywords: PDMS; flexible; strain sensor; wire bonding

References

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