Processing Method and PropertyStudy for 0-3 Cement-based Piezoelectric Composite Sensor
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The cement-based piezoelectric composite is developed to fabricate smart sensors in real-time structural health monitoring. The cement-based piezoelectric sensor is suitable for applications in civil engineering because of its good compatibility in acoustic impedance. The 0–3 cement-based piezoelectric composites were fabricated by mixing the cement particles and lead zirconate titanate powders under high pressure in this paper. The parameters including the piezoelectric factors, relative dielectric constant ɛr, thickness and planar electromechanical coupling coefficients of cement-based composites with different lead zirconate titanate ceramic contents were measured to characterise the electromechanical coupling properties. Further, the acoustic impedance was detected to test acoustic compatibility with concrete materials. Laboratory tests show that the voltage output of the sensor is linearly proportional to the applied pressure. The cement-based piezoelectric sensors have better mechanical–electrical conversion property than pure ceramic sensors. The findings indicate that the 0–3 cement-based piezoelectric sensor meets all requirements of application in construction engineering, and is feasible to be utilised in concrete structures.
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In this paper, some smart sensors or material used to make the smart sensors, such as piezoresistance composite, piezoelectric polymer, piezoelectric cement and corrosion monitoring sensor, developed by Harbin Institute of Technology were introduced. Piezoresistance composite is made with carbon nanotube and resin, one character of the work is the carbon nanotube is orientation arranged by magnetic field. Piezoelectric polymer is made with PZT particles and PVDF, in order to improve its performance a few carbon nanotube are also mixed in the composite. Piezoelectric cement is one kind of sensing material whose primary raw materials are cement and piezoelectric ceramic particles (or fiber). The sensing performance of piezoelectric cement is coming from its functional phase, the piezoelectric ceramic. The corrosion monitoring sensor is made with solid-state reference electrode, whose surface is one kind of binary alloy membrane produced with physical vapor deposition technology. The main producing technology, performance and applications of above sensors were introduced in this paper.
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Piezoelectric cement, instead of PZT (lead zirconate titanate) sensors and smart aggregate, has been developed as a new piezoelectric sensor that particularly applies to monitor concrete structures. Piezoelectric cement is a 0-3 type cementbased piezoelectric composite with 50% PZT for improving the incompatibility of acoustic impedance and volume deformation between conventional piezoelectric sensors and concrete structure. Piezoelectric cement was installed in concrete to monitor the strength development with the age and to detect the damage of concrete by electromechanical impedance technique. The PZT sensor was the counterpart in the experiments. Results indicate that, similar to PZT sensors, piezoelectric cement exhibits the capability of monitoring concrete structures, and the sensitivity of monitoring for piezoelectric cement even better than for the PZT if the piezoelectric cement with suitable piezoelectric strain factor d33. Piezoelectric cement embedded in concrete structures show no resonant frequency in the conductance-frequency spectra that causes to assess the conductance change easily. For the piezoelectric cement with d33 = 101 pC/N, the intervals of frequency are 300–660 kHz and 1000–2000 kHz for the strength monitoring and the damage detection, respectively. Broad effective frequency range provides larger RMSD value of conductance.
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