Piezoelectric paint is a composite piezoelectric material, due to its outstanding properties consisting of flexibility and
conformability, it has been a great interest in structural health monitoring applications recently. The normal piezoelectric
ceramics offer high piezoelectric properties, but are difficult to adhere on curly structural surfaces. For normal polymers,
it offers high flexibility but missing the ability to transform the mechanical energy into the electrical energy, and vice
versa. The piezoelectric paint combines the features of both, so it could be distributed on both even and uneven structural
surface, as a sensor or actuator. This work starts with the development of the piezoelectric paint, followed by a
systematic characterization of its mechanical and piezoelectric properties, which includes microstructure, Young's
modulus, sensitivity and piezoelectric charge constant da1. The characterization results helps to understand the
performance of the piezoelectric paint more deeply. Finally, a refinement method is demonstrated to improve the
piezoelectricity of the paint. The results showed that the piezoelectricity was greatly improved and therefore its
applications in structural health monitoring is widely expanded.
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