Articles

April 13, 2018
The Professional Stress Analyst
Stress analysis is often not well understood by corporate management, particularly by managers who rose to their administrative positions through nontechnical channels. In many companies the stress...
April 9, 2018
Quality Control of Strain Gage Installations
An indispensable preliminary to the start-up of any experimental stress analysis test is verification that all components in the measuring system are functioning properly to produce accurate,...
April 5, 2018
The Data Dilemma
The bulk of industrial experimental stress analysis is currently performed with the resistance strain gage (often irrespective of whether this represents the most effective means of determining the...
February 22, 2018
STRESS ANALYSIS IS LIKE BOXING, IT IS ABOUT THE OBSESSION OF GETTING THE MOST FROM YOURSELF AND YOUR SENSOR WITHIN FOUR ROUNDS
STRAIN GAGE INSTALLATION AND PROTECTION IN FIELD ENVIRONMENTS Introduction Field installation of strain gages presents the stress analyst with several unique “problems”,...
February 14, 2018
Making Any Measurement Simple
The technical literature on strain measurement can make the subject appear complex and confusing. Indeed, measurements sometimes are complex and confusing. But more often than not they are...
February 8, 2018
The effect of short range order on the thermal output and gage factor
OVERVIEW     The operating characteristics of resistive metal foil strain gages are influenced by many parameters,  probably the most fundamental of which are the backing...
January 29, 2018
Buying a new mountain bike?
Buying a new mountain bike? You need to decide between bikes with front suspension only (a “hardtail”) or full (front and rear) suspension. We decided to investigate the change in...
January 25, 2018
The Structure Who Cried Wolf
A customer approached us with a skyscraper structural monitoring application that requires user defined alarm and warning triggered events to be sent to the remote operator located thousands of miles...
January 22, 2018
Strain Gage Installation Checklist: ALUMINUM
Our new Aluminum checklist helps to ensure consistency and completeness in carrying out a strain measurement task. We all need checklists to keep track of what needs to be done to get an accurate...
January 19, 2018
Strain Gage Installation Checklist: Glass
Our new glass checklist helps to ensure consistency and completeness in carrying out a strain measurement task. Any stress analyst who has to carry around an enormous amount of knowledge and...