NON-CONTACT MAGNETOSTRICTIVE SENSOR ALIGNMENT

Systems, methods, and devices for positioning, orienting, and/or aligning a stress sensor assembly are provided. Raw stress signals, which can correspond to stress in the target, can be generated by detecting a magnetic flux that travels through the target. The raw stress signals can be sensitive to an alignment of the sensor relative to the target. In order to minimize measurement error, the stress sensor can be properly aligned relative to the target prior to taking a stress measurement. Sensor alignment can involve adjusting a yaw, pitch, and/or roll of the sensor, measuring the raw stresssignals, attenuating the detected magnetic flux, and measuring the raw stress signals again. When the stress sensor is properly aligned, a change in a size of a gap between the sensor and a surface ofa target can result in approximately equal changes in the raw stress signal. 本发明提供了用于对应力传感器组件进行定位、定向和/或对准的系统、方法和装置。对应于目标中的应力的原始应力信号可以通过检测行进穿过所述目标的磁通量来产生。所述原始应力信号可以对所述传感器相对于所述目标的对准敏感。为了使测量误差最小化，所述应力传感器可以在测量应力之前相对于所述目标恰当对准。对准传感