Coupled Resonant Coil Sensors for Remote Passive Monitoring Applications

dc.contributor.authorBhadra, Sharmistha
dc.contributor.examiningcommitteeThomson, Douglas (Electrical and Computer Engineering) Svecova, Dagmar (Civil Engineering)en
dc.contributor.supervisorBridges, Greg (Electrical and Computer Engineering)en
dc.date.accessioned2010-09-10T13:06:08Z
dc.date.available2010-09-10T13:06:08Z
dc.date.issued2010-09-10T13:06:08Z
dc.degree.disciplineElectrical and Computer Engineeringen_US
dc.degree.levelMaster of Science (M.Sc.)en_US
dc.description.abstractThe thesis describes development and application of coupled resonant coil sensors, which is of growing interest for remote monitoring applications. An interrogation technique, which improves the accuracy and interrogation range of coupled resonant coil sensors, is introduced. The method uses time-domain gating to produce measurements that are dominated by the response of the sensor coil and are immune to surrounding object interference. For application in structural health monitoring a low cost embeddable coupled coil sensor, which is able to monitor the corrosion potential of reinforcement steel is presented. Results of an accelerated corrosion test using the sensor indicate that corrosion potential can be monitored with a resolution less than 10 mV and a sensitivity of 0.76 kHz/mV. The last part describes a coupled-coil pH sensor based on pH electrode potential measurement. A linear response over a 4 to 10 pH dynamic range and 50 kHz/pH sensitivity are achieved with a 0.1 pH resolution and 30 s response time.en
dc.description.noteOctober 2010en
dc.format.extent3556817 bytes
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdf
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1993/4123
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.rightsopen accessen_US
dc.subjectaccelerated corrosion testen
dc.subjectcorrosion potentialen
dc.subjectcoupled coilen
dc.subjectpassiveen
dc.subjectreinforcement steelen
dc.subjectresonant frequencyen
dc.subjectvaractoren
dc.subjectwirelessen
dc.subjectquality factoren
dc.subjectpHen
dc.subjectinterrogatoren
dc.subjecttime-domain gatingen
dc.subjectpH combination electrodeen
dc.subjectinterrogation distanceen
dc.titleCoupled Resonant Coil Sensors for Remote Passive Monitoring Applicationsen
dc.typemaster thesisen_US
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