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Sensors 2012, 12, 16641-16659; doi:10.3390/s121216641 OPEN ACCESS sensors ISSN 1424-8220 /journal/sensors Article Experimental Investigation of the Cross-Sensitivity and Size Effects of Polyvinylidene Fluoride Film Sensors on Modal Testing Kuo-Chih Chuang 1, Chien-Ching Ma 2,* and Hong-Cin Liou 2 1 School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Institute of Applied Mechanics, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China; E-Mail: chuangkc@ 2 Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei 10617, Taiwan; E-Mail: .tw * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-Mail: ccma@.tw; Tel./Fax: +886-2-2365-9996. Received: 9 October 2012; in revised form: 7 November 2012 / Accepted: 27 November 2012 / Published: 4 December 2012 Abstract: Due to advantages such as light weight, flexibility, and low cost, polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) films have been widely used in engineering applications as sensors for detecting strain, pressure, or micro-force. However, it is known that PVDF strain sensors have strain cross-sensitivity in mutually orthogonal directions. Furthermore, the size of the PVDF film sensor would also affect the dynamic strain sensing performance. In this paper, to investigate the cross-sensitivity and size effects experimentally, we employ PVDF film sensors to perform dynamic measurements on a cantilever beam. Since the vibrations of the cantilever beam are excited by impacts of a steel ball, the induced highly repeatable t