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May 8, 2018
With precision load cell manufacturers producing weighing devices capable of making measurements with inaccuracies as small 0.1% of full scale using bonded resistance strain gages, most stress...
May 7, 2018
Two of the most important measurements used to verify the quality of a strain gage installation are insulation resistance (leakage to ground) and shift in gage resistance due to installation...
May 4, 2018
 StrainBond™ is a unique service we offer. Our decades of technical expertise with photoelastic coatings and two-dimensional models enable visualization of actual strain patterns and...
May 3, 2018
  Traditionally, the inherent complexities of dynamic test setups and programming, as well as repetitive manual measurement tasks, have created up to days, or weeks, of unwanted downtime....
May 3, 2018
A strain gage rosette is, by definition, an arrangement of two or more closely positioned gage grids, separately oriented to measure the normal strains along different directions in the underlying...
April 30, 2018
Strain Gauge Sensor Measurements on Printed Circuit Boards ( Based on Advanced Sensors Technology) - Where Does It All Begin?   Our sales and application engineering team is comprised of...
April 19, 2018
Adhesives form a bond either by solvent evaporation (drying) or by a polymeric reaction (curing).  With strain gages, adhesives of the polymeric reaction variety are used since the strain gage...
April 18, 2018
Strain gage installers (= stress analysts) sometimes have trouble getting the strain gage sensors to bond to the test structure, when using the cellophane tape method of gage handling, for example,...
April 13, 2018
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
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,...