Non-contact bolt axial force measurement based on the deformation of bolt head using quartz crystal resonator and coils

As a health monitoring tool of bolts in infrastructures, we propose a non-contact evaluation method for the axial force of a bolt. Deformation of the bolt head is measured as an electrical capacitance variation detected as a frequency shift of a simple circuit composed of a quartz crystal resonator...

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Published in:Japanese Journal of Applied Physics 2022-07, Vol.61 (SG), p.SG1022
Main Authors: Hasebe, Kazuhiko, Wada, Yuji, Nakamura, Kentaro
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
axial force
Axial forces
bolt head deformation
Circuits
Coils
Cost analysis
Deformation
Electric contacts
Electronic circuits
Equivalent circuits
Force measurement
Frequency shift
quartz crystal resonator
Quartz crystals
remote sensing
Resonators
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Summary:As a health monitoring tool of bolts in infrastructures, we propose a non-contact evaluation method for the axial force of a bolt. Deformation of the bolt head is measured as an electrical capacitance variation detected as a frequency shift of a simple circuit composed of a quartz crystal resonator and coils. The measurement was carried out via magnetic field coupling between the coil installed on the bolt head and another coil connected to the measurement instrument. Since the method requires no active electronic circuit or battery for the bolt, low cost and high durability can be expected. First, the circuit was analyzed and optimized using an equivalent circuit model. Then, the feasibility of the proposed method was experimentally studied using a prototype. It was demonstrated that the method enabled non-contact axial force estimation in which the dependence on the distance between the coils is sufficiently small for detecting bolt looseness.
ISSN:0021-4922
1347-4065
DOI:10.35848/1347-4065/ac420d