title: Magneto-mechanical impedance of metallic structures.
abstract: Impedance measurements with a magneto-elastic active sensor are explored for inferring the magneto-mechanical impedance (MMI) of a metallic structure. It is shown that the MMI contains electrical response of the sensor and both electrical and mechanical structural responses. An analytical model is suggested that accounts for electrical characteristics of the sensor, sensor/structure electromagnetic interaction, and multimodal structural dynamic behavior. The model is validated with a set of MMI experiments demonstrating feasibility of deducing structural natural frequencies and structural vibration modes.
authors.affiliation: Department of Mechanical Engineering, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, New Mexico 87801, USA. azagrai@nmt.edu
authors.forename: Andrei N
authors.initials: AN
authors.lastname: Zagrai
mesh_terms: D017097:Electric Impedance; D006801:Humans; D008280:Magnetics; D008670:Metals
chemical_list: D008670:Metals