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This paper presents a microwave antenna sensor that has the ability to monitor fatigue crack growth between lap joints where compressive force is present or in any other areas where a crack is hidden between two parts of a structure. The sensor is designed to be low profile, light weight, and conformal, making it ideal for aerospace applications and thus minimizing manual inspection times. The design of a fatigue sample to simulate a lap joint is presented. The antenna sensor was fabricated on the fatigue sample and tested under cyclic loading. The experiment results indicated that the microwave antenna sensor can monitor the crack growth as well as the crack orientation.
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