Sensors and Instrumentation, Aircraft/Aerospace and Energy Harvesting , Volume 8

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Sensors and Instrumentation, Volume 8. Proceedings of the 36th IMAC,A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2018, the eighth volume of nine from the Conference brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering. The collection presents early findings and case studies on fundamental and applied aspects of Sensors and Instrumentation, including papers on: Sensor Applications Accelerometer Design Accelerometer Calibration Sensor Technology Energy Harvesting Technology Aircraft/Aerospace Technology Front Matter ....Pages i-viii Broadband Energy Harvesting Performance of a Piezoelectrically Generated Bistable Laminate (Andrew J. Lee, Daniel J. Inman)....Pages 1-14 Performance Assessment of Several Low-Cost Consumer-Grade Analog-to-Digital Conversion Devices (G. R. Wetherington Jr)....Pages 15-22 High-g Shock Acceleration Measurement Using Martlet Wireless Sensing System (Xi Liu, Xinjun Dong, Yang Wang, Lauren Stewart, Jacob Dodson, Bryan Joyce)....Pages 23-31 Effect of Piezoelectric Material in Mitigation of Aerodynamic Forces (Gholamreza Amirinia, Sungmoon Jung, Grzegorz Kakareko)....Pages 33-40 A Theoretical Description of a Multi-source Energy Harvester (J. Gosliga, D. J. Wagg)....Pages 41-47 Lumped Mass Model of a 1D Metastructure with Vibration Absorbers with Varying Mass (Katherine K. Reichl, Daniel J. Inman)....Pages 49-56 Dynamic Behavior and Performance Analysis of Piezoelastic Energy Harvesters Under Model and Parameter Uncertainties (Paulo S. Varoto)....Pages 57-66 Experimental Test of Spacecraft Parachute Deployment using Real-Time Hybrid Substructuring (Michael J. Harris, Richard E. Christenson)....Pages 67-70 Experimental and Analytical Approaches in a Virtual Shaker Testing Simulation Environment for Numerical Prediction of a Spacecraft Vibration Test (S. Waimer, S. Manzato, B. Peeters, M. Wagner, P. Guillaume)....Pages 71-81 Direct Reference-Free Dynamic Deflection Measurement of Railroad Bridge under Service Load (Bideng Liu, Ali Ozdagli, Fernando Moreu)....Pages 83-91 A Low-Cost Modular Impact-Based Experimental Setup for Evaluation of EMI Based Structural Health Monitoring at High Rates (Ekramul Haque Ehite, Steven R. Anton)....Pages 93-102 Real-Time Low-Cost Wireless Reference-Free Displacement Sensing of Railroad Bridges (Ali Ozdagli, Bideng Liu, Fernando Moreu)....Pages 103-109 Multi-Tonal Based Impedance Measurements for Microsecond State Detection (Ryan A. Kettle, Steven R. Anton)....Pages 111-118 Design and Installation Considerations of Dynamic Strain Gages for Thermo-Acoustic Aerospace Structures Test (Matthew S. Stefanski, William E. Boles)....Pages 119-124 TESS Vibration Testing: A Boundary Condition Case Study (Alexandra Karlicek, Allison Pinosky)....Pages 125-133 Performing a Large-Scale Modal Test on the B2 Stand Crane at NASA’s Stennis Space Center (Eric C. Stasiunas, Russel A. Parks)....Pages 135-147 Study on the Soft Suspension Behavior for Aircraft Ground Vibration Test Set-Up (Antonio Almeida Giacomin, Airton Nabarrete, Marcelo Camilo Alves Costa, Tatiana Chloe Digou)....Pages 149-154 A Review of the Vibration Environment Onboard Small Unmanned Aircraft (William H. Semke, Matthew D. Dunlevy)....Pages 155-164