Fully printed, large-scale, high sensitive strain sensor array for stress monitoring of infrastructures

Abstract

We demonstrate a macroscale sensor sheet by fabricating the fully printed, large-scale, and high sensitive strain sensor array on mechanically flexible substrates. This sensor sheet can conformally cover any surfaces for the application of real-time infrastructure stress monitoring as the first proof-of-concept. To realize this concept, a screen printing method is proposed to use by developing an ink for strain sensor. Printed strain sensor array exhibits impressively high sensitivity, and successfully detects two-dimensional strain distribution of small deformation <;10μm.