@inproceedings{a966d602fb864c8cb8ab3c897f050cc2,
title = "NDE of additively manufactured parts via directly bonded and mechanically attached electromechanical impedance sensors",
abstract = "Additive Manufacturing (AM) allows increased complexity which poses challenges to quality-control (QC) and non-destructive evaluation (NDE) of manufactured parts. The lack of simple, reliable, and inexpensive methods for NDE of AM parts is a significant obstacle to wider adoption of AM parts. Electromechanical impedance measurements have been investigated as a means to detect manufacturing defects in AM parts. Impedance-based NDE utilizes piezoelectric wafers as collocated sensors and actuators. Taking advantage of the coupled electromechanical characteristics of piezoelectric materials, the mechanical characteristics of the part under test can be inferred from the electrical impedance of the piezoelectric wafer. Previous efforts have used piezoelectric wafers bonded directly to the part under test, which imposes several challenges regarding the applicability and robustness of the technique. This paper investigates the use of an instrumented clamp as a solution for measuring the electromechanical impedance of the part under test. The effectiveness of this approach in detecting manufacturing defects is compared to directly bonded wafers.",
keywords = "Additive manufacturing, Electromechanical impedance, Manufacturing defects, Non-destructive evaluation, Piezoelectrics",
author = "C. Tenney and M. Albakri and Williams, {C. B.} and P. Tarazaga",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} The Society for Experimental Mechanics, Inc 2019.; SEM Annual Conference and Exposition on Experimental and Applied Mechanics, 2018 ; Conference date: 04-06-2018 Through 07-06-2018",
year = "2019",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-319-74421-6_35",
language = "English",
isbn = "9783319744209",
series = "Conference Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Mechanics Series",
publisher = "Springer Science and Business Media, LLC",
pages = "263--271",
editor = "Shamim Pakzad",
booktitle = "Dynamics of Civil Structures, Volume 2 - Proceedings of the 36th IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics 2018",
address = "United States",
}