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May 16, 2018
Select the Right Adhesive (Cyanoacrylate) for your Strain Gauge Installation
For routine experimental stress analysis applications under temperate environmental conditions, M-Bond 200 adhesive is ordinarily the best choice. This adhesive is very easy to handle, and cures...
May 11, 2018
Your load is more important than your speed (University of Washington)
Strain gages from Micro-Measurements® were used by the University of Washington ECOCAR 3 team to validate the design of the front electronics shelf and generator structure mount in the car. The...
May 8, 2018
Mechanics and the Strain Gage or The Art of Meaningful Measurement
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
Effect of residual flux on a strain gage (Gage Installation Tester)
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
A four element force sensor
 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
How to Make Sure Your Boss Knows How Hard You Work? (Try StrainSmart®).
  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
3-Element Strain Gage Rosette Demo (Intertechnology, Canada)
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 PCBs with Over 100 Years of Combined Experience.
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
What is the difference between adhesive and cement?
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
How to Troubleshoot Strain Gage Bond Failures.
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,...