Additive manufacturing of nylon composites with embedded multi-material piezoresistive strain sensors for structural health monitoring

• Main Authors: Gackowski, Bartosz Mikolaj, Goh, Guo Dong, Sharma, Mohit, Idapalapati, Sridhar
• Other Authors: School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2023
• Subjects: Engineering::Mechanical engineering; 3D Printing; Buckypapers
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/169265
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

A hybrid additive manufacturing process is proposed to incorporate piezoresistive sensors into a polyamide matrix for real-time structural health monitoring. 3D-printed samples were tested under tensile, flexural, and indentation testing using various sizes, numbers, and locations of the sensors, wh...