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December 7, 2017
A Strain Gage on a Frying Pan?
The cast iron frying pan is an excellent surface to illustrate how to solve common strain gage installation challenges, such as: Filling and smoothing a rough, cast surface. Installing a...
November 28, 2017
Need to Measure Force within a Structure?
VPG Stress-tek has many tools at hand to solve difficult problems and create successful solutions in load measurement.  Very often, a designer finds a need to measure forces within a system or...
November 23, 2017
Problem Solving using Photostress
With Photostress, an engineer can immediately see the result of real loads on a machine or structural part.  One of the reasons that real testing and finite element analysis (FEA) compliment...
November 21, 2017
Strain Gauge Rosette Measurement Using a Coke Can as a Thin Walled Pressure Vessel
In this Micro-Measurements® iNotes™ video, Anton Chittey of Vishay Measurements Group UK uses a Micro-Measurements rosette (CEA-13-125UR-350) and a System 8000 with StrainSmart Software to...
November 16, 2017
Moving Mountains with the Help of Strain Gages
This video describes a unique strain gage-based sensor designed to measure the width of a crack in concrete or rock.  With a resolution of 1/10000th of an inch, this sensor represents the...
November 15, 2017
StrainSmart 9000 is Now Released!
StrainSmart 9000 is a new version of legendary StrainSmart  Software that is designed to handle the high sampling rate and dynamic capability of the System 9000.  There are many...
November 9, 2017
Tutorial: How to Install a Miniature Strain Gauge Rosette on a Printed Circuit Assembly (German Language)
This Micro-Measurements® iNotes™ video shows correct installation of a precabled, miniature strain gage rosette, produced using Micro-Measurements Advanced Sensors® technology, on a...
November 3, 2017
Tutorial: How to Install a Miniature Strain Gauge Rosette on a Printed Circuit Assembly (Chinese Language)
This Micro-Measurements® iNotes™ video shows correct installation of a precabled, miniature strain gage rosette, produced using Micro-Measurements Advanced Sensors® technology, on a...
November 1, 2017
Strain Gage Installation on Glass
Vijay Kumar, of Dynatec in India, demonstrates how to install a strain gage on the surface of glass. Vijay performs a complete installation and then validates the install by checking stability and...
October 31, 2017
The Venerable P3 Strain Indicator from Micro-Measurements
Need a static strain measuring instrument that is highly accurate, accepts any Wheatstone bridge configuration, 120- 350- and 1000-ohm resistors built-in, has four measurement channels, on-board...