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Fig. 3. (a) The magnetic detector App and (b) the installation in the Vivo smartphone (model V1901A).
area of deploying smartphones for engineering applications
is still in its infancy, let alone using smartphone magnetometers.
Smartphones use their magnetometer to sense their
orientation in space. This is done via an inside chip that contains
a 3-axis magnetometer [26]. The body outline framework
has +Z-axis opposite to the front face of the smartphone and
expanding upwards when a smartphone is held in normal position
with the back/front cameras at the top [28], [17]. Other
than the primary application of the smartphone magnetometer,
there are a number of smartphone applications that can be
interfaced with the magnetometer to measure the magnetic
field around the smartphone. As an example, Fig. 3a shows a
" Magnetic Field Detector " app developed by " Mobile Develop
Team. " This App uses the three axes X, Y and Z. The display of
the magnetic field in this software is in micro-Tesla per second.
In this study, this App was installed on a Vivo smartphone
(model V1901A) shown in Fig. 3b.
SHM of Structures Using Magnetic Field
Intensity Changes
The proposed SHM technique is based on the variations of the
magnetic field over targeted structures. Fig. 4a demonstrates
the magnetic flux over a cracked steel plate and an intact steel
plate. The magnetic flux is evenly distributed over the intact
steel plate. On the contrary, a crack in the steel plate results in
the sharp fluctuation of the magnetic flows over the damaged
region. By monitoring the magnetic flux changes, it is possible
to infer the structural health condition.
The magnetic field around the steel plate and other structural
systems is not normally strong enough to be used for the
Fig. 4. (a) Demonstration of the magnetic flux over an intact and cracked steel plate, (b) Comparisons of the B-H relations between the ferromagnets,
paramagnets, diamagnets and free space, and (c) Screenshot of the magnetometer App used for damage detection.
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