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A Flow Sensing Device Formed Exclusively by Employing Additive Manufacturing for On-Site Fabrication Aboard a Ship
This work concerns the design, fabrication, and testing of a novel air-flow sensor employing exclusively additive manufacturing that can be fabricated on-site, aboard a ship, or in a similarly remote area, without relying on external manufacturing facilities. The developed device’s principle of oper...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10611284/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37896574 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s23208481 |
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author | Pagonis, Dimitrios-Nikolaos Matsoukas, Ioannis Kaltsas, Grigoris Pilatis, Aggelos |
author_facet | Pagonis, Dimitrios-Nikolaos Matsoukas, Ioannis Kaltsas, Grigoris Pilatis, Aggelos |
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description | This work concerns the design, fabrication, and testing of a novel air-flow sensor employing exclusively additive manufacturing that can be fabricated on-site, aboard a ship, or in a similarly remote area, without relying on external manufacturing facilities. The developed device’s principle of operation is based on vortex shedding; its novelty focuses on employing solely additive manufacturing technology, for the manufacturing—in a single process step—of all the sensor’s main elements. In more detail, the required flow-shaping housing, the appropriate piezoresistive sensing element, and the electrical interconnection pads are all constructed in a single process step, through standard Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM) 3D technology. Direct communication to the necessary readout circuitry can be easily achieved through standard soldering utilizing the integrated contact pads of the sensor. The prototype was preliminary characterized, validating its proper functionality. Key features of the proposed device are low cost, fast on-site manufacturing of the entire measuring device, robustness, and simplicity, suggesting numerous potential applications in the shipbuilding industry and other industrial sectors. |
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spelling | pubmed-106112842023-10-28 A Flow Sensing Device Formed Exclusively by Employing Additive Manufacturing for On-Site Fabrication Aboard a Ship Pagonis, Dimitrios-Nikolaos Matsoukas, Ioannis Kaltsas, Grigoris Pilatis, Aggelos Sensors (Basel) Article This work concerns the design, fabrication, and testing of a novel air-flow sensor employing exclusively additive manufacturing that can be fabricated on-site, aboard a ship, or in a similarly remote area, without relying on external manufacturing facilities. The developed device’s principle of operation is based on vortex shedding; its novelty focuses on employing solely additive manufacturing technology, for the manufacturing—in a single process step—of all the sensor’s main elements. In more detail, the required flow-shaping housing, the appropriate piezoresistive sensing element, and the electrical interconnection pads are all constructed in a single process step, through standard Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM) 3D technology. Direct communication to the necessary readout circuitry can be easily achieved through standard soldering utilizing the integrated contact pads of the sensor. The prototype was preliminary characterized, validating its proper functionality. Key features of the proposed device are low cost, fast on-site manufacturing of the entire measuring device, robustness, and simplicity, suggesting numerous potential applications in the shipbuilding industry and other industrial sectors. MDPI 2023-10-15 /pmc/articles/PMC10611284/ /pubmed/37896574 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s23208481 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Pagonis, Dimitrios-Nikolaos Matsoukas, Ioannis Kaltsas, Grigoris Pilatis, Aggelos A Flow Sensing Device Formed Exclusively by Employing Additive Manufacturing for On-Site Fabrication Aboard a Ship |
title | A Flow Sensing Device Formed Exclusively by Employing Additive Manufacturing for On-Site Fabrication Aboard a Ship |
title_full | A Flow Sensing Device Formed Exclusively by Employing Additive Manufacturing for On-Site Fabrication Aboard a Ship |
title_fullStr | A Flow Sensing Device Formed Exclusively by Employing Additive Manufacturing for On-Site Fabrication Aboard a Ship |
title_full_unstemmed | A Flow Sensing Device Formed Exclusively by Employing Additive Manufacturing for On-Site Fabrication Aboard a Ship |
title_short | A Flow Sensing Device Formed Exclusively by Employing Additive Manufacturing for On-Site Fabrication Aboard a Ship |
title_sort | flow sensing device formed exclusively by employing additive manufacturing for on-site fabrication aboard a ship |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10611284/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37896574 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s23208481 |
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