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An array of 25 micron diameter wire bonds in an approximately 8 mm \u00d7 8 mm area is built to create an interdigitated structure, which consists of 50 wire loops resulting in 49 capacitor pairs in parallel. Laser machining was used to pattern copper on a flexible printed circuit board PCB to make the bond pads for the wire attachment. The wire array was finally packaged and embedded in polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS), which acts as the structural material that is strained. The capacitance of the device is in a linear like relationship with respect to the strain, which can measure the strain up to at least \u00b160,000 micro-strain (\u00b16%) with a resolution of ~132 micro-strain (0.013%). In-tyre testing under static loading has shown the ability of the sensor to measure large tyre strains. The technology used for sensor fabrication lends itself to mass production and so the design is considered to be consistent with low cost commercialisable strain sensing technology.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s16060929","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2016,6,23]],"date-time":"2016-06-23T00:43:08Z","timestamp":1466642588000},"page":"929","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":9,"title":["Flexible Bond Wire Capacitive Strain Sensor for Vehicle Tyres"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"16","author":[{"given":"Siyang","family":"Cao","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK"}]},{"given":"Simon","family":"Pyatt","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK"}]},{"given":"Carl","family":"Anthony","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK"}]},{"given":"Ammar","family":"Kubba","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK"}]},{"given":"Ali","family":"Kubba","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Fusion Innovations Ltd., Research and Innovation Services, Birmingham Research Park, Vincent Drive, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2SQ, UK"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-6703-334X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Oluremi","family":"Olatunbosun","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2016,6,21]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1819","DOI":"10.1016\/S0005-1098(97)00093-9","article-title":"Nonlinear tire force estimation and road friction identification: Simulation and experiments","volume":"33","author":"Ray","year":"1997","journal-title":"Automatica"},{"key":"ref_2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"189","DOI":"10.1076\/vesd.39.3.189.14152","article-title":"Dynamic friction models for road\/tire longitudinal interaction","volume":"39","author":"Tsiotras","year":"2003","journal-title":"Veh. 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