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June 23, 2020
The life and times of a strain gauge.
It’s common to hear unqualified statements that strain gauges fail or fall off. This can lead to rumours that gauges are unreliable, but in fact installation failures are caused by insufficient...
June 23, 2020
Photoelasticity … A Mouthful, But A Fascinating Stress Analysis Tool To Design a Transducer.
The ideal structure is one where all components – no matter the loads they are subjected – will eventually wear out at the same time. When a single part fails before its companion, it has...
June 22, 2020
Where are all the strain gauges?
Strain gauges are literally everywhere. They interact with your daily life, both directly and indirectly, whether you are aware of them or not. Here’s a typical day that many of us experience...
June 16, 2020
Where Do Our Strain Gages Go? Crane, Planes, and Your Dishwasher….
Once a strain gage leaves the Micro-Measurement manufacturing site, the applications which engineers find for the device are almost too numerous to count. Many Advanced Sensors Technology strain...
June 2, 2020
Advanced Sensors Strain Gages Pave Way For Reversible Traffic Lanes
As ( “Advanced Sensors”*) the old saying goes, two way (reversible) lanes above or below a (full) bridge are often more efficient and safe than set-direction lanes. We will all need more...
June 2, 2020
Straight Down The Middle! Alignment Of Universal Testers
Tensile testing is a commonly-used method for determining material properties. To achieve this accurately the universal test machine must be calibrated. For example, the load cell can be compared to...
June 2, 2020
It’s Make Or Break Time! Tensile Testing For Material Properties.
Material properties are essential to understand for every structure and design. They enable structural predictions to be made, for example in FEA (finite element analysis), to ensure the right...
May 27, 2020
New Micro-Measurements Bridge Completion Modules (BCM) Improve Quality of Strain Measurements for Broad Range of Applications
MALVERN, PA, USA  |  May 27, 2020 — The Micro-Measurements® brand of Vishay Precision Group, Inc. (NYSE: VPG) (www.micro-measurements.com), today introduced the MRF-Series Bridge...
May 26, 2020
Glance into The Past, but Stare into The Future
System 7100 is the latest addition to our range of instruments, a re-engineered, modern version of our successful System 7000 from the mid-2000s. Customers include large aerospace companies,...
May 26, 2020
Slow, Slow, Quick Quick Slow – System 9000 Dances to Your Tune.
A recent addition to the StrainSmart family, System 9000 brings the versatility and simplicity of StrainSmart software to high-speed data capture. Up to 50,000 samples/second/channel makes this our...