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ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2024

A Circular Touch Mode Capacitive Rainfall Sensor: Analytical Solution and Numerical Design and Calibration.

Xiao-Ting He, Jun-Song Ran, Ji Wu, Fei-Yan Li, Jun-Yi Sun

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Xiao-Ting HeSchool of Civil Engineering, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400045, China.ORCID 0000-0002-8880-3961
Jun-Song RanSchool of Civil Engineering, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400045, China.
Ji WuSchool of Civil Engineering, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400045, China.
Fei-Yan LiSchool of Civil Engineering, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400045, China.
Jun-Yi SunSchool of Civil Engineering, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400045, China.ORCID 0000-0003-4356-7173

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National Natural Science Foundation of China 11772072
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Abstract

A circular capacitive rainfall sensor can operate from non-touch mode to touch mode; that is, under the action of enough rainwater, its movable electrode plate can form a circular contact area with its fixed electrode plate. Therefore, the weight of rainwater is borne by only its movable electrode plate in non-touch mode operation but by both its movable and fixed electrode plates in touch mode operation, and the total capacitance of its touch mode operation is much larger than that of its non-touch mode operation. Essential to its numerical design and calibration is the ability to predict the deflection shape of its moveable electrode plate to determine its total capacitance. This requires the analytical solution to the fluid-structure interaction problem of its movable electrode plate under rainwater. In our previous work, only the analytical solution for the fluid-structure interaction problem before its movable electrode plate touches its fixed electrode plate was obtained, and how to numerically design and calibrate a circular non-touch mode capacitive rainfall sensor was illustrated. In this paper, the analytical solution for the fluid-structure interaction problem after its movable electrode plate touches its fixed electrode plate is obtained, and how to numerically design and calibrate a circular touch mode capacitive rainfall sensor is illustrated for the first time. The numerical results show that the total capacitance and rainwater volume when the circular capacitive rainfall sensor operates in touch mode is indeed much larger than that when the same circular capacitive rainfall sensor operates in non-touch mode, and that the average increase in the maximum membrane stress per unit rainwater volume when the circular capacitive rainfall sensor operates in touch mode can be about 20 times smaller than that when the same circular capacitive rainfall sensor operates in non-touch mode. This is where the circular touch mode capacitive rainfall sensor excels.

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analytical solutioncapacitive sensorlarge deflectionnumerical calibrationrainfall measurement

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