Thin film-based flexible strain sensors have various advantages for structural health
monitoring (SHM) because of their capability to sustain large deformations and cover large …

Recent advances in soft polymer materials have enabled the design of soft machines and
devices at multiple scales. Their intrinsic compliance and robust mechanical properties and …

Sutures are ubiquitous medical devices for wound closures in human and veterinary
medicine, and suture techniques are frequently evaluated by comparing tensile strengths in …

The timely discovery and monitoring of fatigue cracks in steel structures is an important task
in order to ensure structural integrity. However, off-the-shelf strain sensors are small and …

The authors have previously proposed corrugated soft elastomeric capacitors (cSEC) to
create ultra compliant scalable strain gauges. The cSEC technology has been successfully …

Recent advances in hyperelastic materials and self-sensing sensor designs have enabled
the creation of dense compliant sensor networks for the cost-effective monitoring of …

High-speed atomic force microscopy (HS-AFM) is a powerful tool for studying the dynamics
of biomolecules in vitro because of its high temporal and spatial resolution. However, multi …

Load-induced fatigue cracking in welds is a critical safety concern for steel transportation
infrastructure, and the automation of their detection using commercial sensing technologies …

Automatic fatigue crack detection using commercial sensing technologies is difficult due to
the highly localized nature of crack monitoring sensors and the randomness of crack …

Angular motion measurement using commercial sensing technologies can be challenging
due to the nonlinearity of the motion and the combination of translational, oscillatory, and …