Calibration of electrical conductivity measurement equipment as a function of pressure

• Grant number: 06/03088-2
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: September 01, 2006
• End date: December 31, 2007
• Field of knowledge: Engineering - Materials and Metallurgical Engineering - Metallurgical Equipment and Facilities
• Principal Investigator: Aldo Eloizo Job
• Grantee: Gabriel Galbes Battistone
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia (FCT). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Presidente Prudente. Presidente Prudente , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This project proposed for the student of Scientific Initiation has as goal principal to participate of the construction of an device of measure of electric conductivity in function of the pressure, doing besides the structure, that is being concluded by the student in the first stage, the calibration to guarantee to the material conductive studied elastomeric, the operation as sensor of pressure. The calibration will be made varying the mechanical parameters, being the control of the applied pressure using different loads cells and variation of the thickness of the sample in function of the pressure, the electric parameters through tests with resistors. After confronting the equipment, samples with properties elastomeric and electric conductivity will be characterized as pressure sensor. With the confirmation of the efficiency of the equipment a project is foreseen for automation of this equipment for next semester for two students of the course of the Computation Science that will make the integrated systems and the interface program, that are already participating in the development of the project. It is worth to point out that also shimmers in this project it is the patent register and commercialization of the same.