Fault Location on Aging Aircraft Wiring --Publications

 

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Overview Aging Aircraft Wiring

IEEE Spectrum Magazine, Feb. 2001, pp. 34-39

A New Q/A update to this article appears in April 2008

INVITED PAPER , Cynthia Furse, You Chung Chung, Chet, Lo, Praveen Pendayala, A Critical Comparison of Reflectometry Methods for Location of Wiring Faults, Journal of Smart Structures and Systems

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Spread Spectrum Sensors for Live Wire Testing (S/SSTDR)

·         C. Furse, P. Smith, M. Diamond, “Feasibility of Reflectometry for Nondestructive Evaluation of Prestressed Concrete Anchors,” accepted to IEEE Journal of Sensors

 

Implementation of SSTDR as a chip

·         US Patent 7,165,200 B2, System and method for characterizing a signal path using a sub-chip sampler

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Noise Domain Reflectometry (NDR)

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Multicarrier Reflectometry (MCR)

 

·         Peiman Amini, Cynthia Furse, Behrouz Farhang-Boroujeny,  Filterbanks for Multicarrier Reflectometry,” IEEE Sensors Journal, in press

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Mixed Signal Reflectometry (MSR)

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Frequency Domain Reflectometry (PD-FDR)

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Capacitance Sensing

·         Y. Chung, N. Amarnath, C. Furse, J.Mahoney, Capacitance and Inductance Sensors for Location of Open and Short Circuited Wires IEEE Trans Instrumentation, Vol. 58, No. 8, Aug 2009, pp. 2495-2502

 

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Branched Wiring Networks

 

 

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Frays

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Non-Contact Probes

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Student Theses and Dissertations

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CSS Project in the News

 

Utah Researchers May have a Better Way to Inspect Planes (2008)

Talking Point

National Science Foundation in the News 2001

Aviation Week April 2000

Odgen Standard Examiner 12-7-00

Access Utah (radio) 12-6-00

KSL TV January 2001

Utah Chronicle Feb 16, 2007

 KSL TV April 11, 2008  Interview at LiveWire  and Talking Point

Power Point Presentations

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Last revised: Nov 2009

For More Information Contact: Dr. Cynthia Furse