The Effects of Mechanical Loading on Resonant Response of a Conformal Load-Bearing Antenna System

Autor: Shouxun Lu, Kelvin J. Nicholson, Joel Patniotis, John Wang, Wing Kong Chiu
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2024
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Zdroj: Sensors, Vol 24, Iss 19, p 6206 (2024)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1424-8220
DOI: 10.3390/s24196206
Popis: Glass fibre-reinforced polymer (GFRP) is a suitable substrate material for constructing a Conformal Load-Bearing Antenna Structure (CLAS). The relative permittivity of the CLAS substrate, which determines its resonant frequency, is affected by damage sustained by GFRP. This paper investigates the effects of damage (induced by mechanically loading the substrate) on the resonant response of the CLAS. Decoupling the antenna from the substrate was essential to evaluate the CLAS’s true response to the induced damage. This paper details a systematic investigation examining how the frequency response of a “pristine” antenna and a surface-mounted antenna respond to a substrate subjected to quasi-statically induced mechanical damage and cyclic fatigue loading. The results demonstrate that the resonant frequency of the CLAS varies as a function of the substrate’s mechanical damage. The prepared CLAS is tolerant to a certain degree of mechanical loading and related damage with its resonant frequency remaining within an acceptable bandwidth.
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