Team 23: Desktop "high striker" piezoelectric test fixture
Above: A piezoelectric sensor test fixture.
Top Image: Team members from left to right: Emily Page, Tré Tiff, Christopher Doyle, Justin Hilbert, Kendall Holloway, Matthew Jaeckel, Kristin Bogar-Satterfield.
The piezoelectric sensor test fixture was designed to echo a carnival ‘High Striker’ for Los Alamos National Laboratory. The test fixture uses a sound box to focus pressure waves onto a thin film piezoelectric sensor and reads the voltage output using LabView. The data is stored and used to build a trend line characterizing the range of the sensor when it undergoes high speed, high impact forces.
Sponsorship
Sponsored by Los Alamos National Laboratories
Director
Christoph Keplinger
[video:https://youtu.be/8uVhJX2nIQo]
Team Members
- Kristin Bogar-Satterfield - Test Engineer
- Christopher Doyle - Project Manager
- Justin Hilbert - Systems Engineer
- Kendall Holloway - Financial Manager
- Matthew Jaeckel - CAD Engineer
- Emily Page - Logistics Manager
- Tré Tiff - Manufacturing Engineer