Sentences with phrase «strain gauge»

Engineers typically use strain gauges to measure the stresses on automobile parts, chains, bridges and other weight - bearing objects.

Several strain gauges are used to make up a load cell.

«The sensor consists of a flexible printed circuit board wrapped around both sides of a line of steel chunks, with strain gauges bridging the gaps between the metal bits,» iFixit says.

He drew on the photon dream to invent a new fiber - optic strain gauge that provides real - time monitoring of structural wear and tear in airplanes.

Other technologies used include strain gauges and vibrating wire load cells.

The potting material must not interfere with normal strain gauge movement, and allow the gauges to return to their normal zero output position.

To try to discover what might cause such events, Brian Collins, a geological engineer with the U.S. Geological Survey in Menlo Park, California, and Yosemite National Park geologist Greg Stock installed strain gauges, which measure overall changes in length, at three spots on a 19 - meter - long, 4 - meter - wide slab of rock that's tenuously attached only along its top and bottom edges to a south - facing cliff in the park.

They took the skulls of recently killed domestic goats and attached a series of strain gauges to measure the force being applied to each of the bony plates that make up the skull.

Highly sensitive platinum strain gauges embedded in Sensimed's Triggerfish lens record changes in the curvature of the cornea, which correspond directly to the pressure inside the eye, says CEO Jean - Marc Wismer.

The ankle was inserted into a padded strap, attached by a high - tension wire that measured force using a Wheatstone bridge configuration strain gauge (Omega Engineering Inc..

Instrumentation engineers may be responsible for designing strain gauges or sensors that eventually capture data about the reliability, efficiency, and safety of industrial machines that are used in the process of manufacturing.

In San Diego, California, a six - story tower riddled with strain gauges and accelerometers rises from the platform of one of the world's biggest earthquake machines.

At 1,000 mph it will see incredible loads, so the engineers need to monitor the aluminium structure using strain gauges... The BLOODHOUND Project is not only about building a car to go 1,000 mph, but it is also a perfect vehicle for education of STEM subjects.

The load sensing elements (strain gauges) are mounted on the inside perimeter of this machined center.

A bending beam load cell in which the strain gauges are mounted on a thin web of material in a machined - out cavity in the load cell.

A load cell that is environmentally sealed by filling the strain gauge cavity with a material that protects the gauges from environmental hazards such as moisture.

Refers to load cells that have a protective coating applied over the strain gauges, terminal strip, etc., within the gauged cavity.

Refers to load cells that have a metallic protective cover welded or soldered in place to protect the strain gauge cavity.

Refers to load cells that have a strain gauge cavity filled with a potting compound.

Fuss found that the strain gauge measurements from the ball enabled him to...

Each tube had a strain gauge at the bottom to measure and log the forces the players» fingers were applying on each shot.

But the strain gauges also revealed why this does not happen.

A strain gauge located at the bottom of the array records any movement the whiskers make.

To monitor the stresses at the dockside and at sea, the IMO recommended in 1993 that carriers should be fitted with strain gauges.

The subjects performed a 4.5 - second isometric MVC with all forces detected by a strain gauge, amplified (Biopac Systems Inc..

The system can be supplied with a gear linkage gear shift sensor or a strain gauge gear knob sensor (see shift kit) and can also be used in conjunction with the Flatshifter Max electric paddle gear shifter system.

[You could make it compatible with a CatEye wireless cycle computer and use it as a cycle computer as well as an environmental monitor - all you would lose is the strain gauge.]

On a quiet road, the strain gauge can be heard as one cranks the wheel over.

The Mountain View company managed to implement the feature with the use of «strain gauges,» and as anyone can figure out from what they're called, they measure the strain on an object.

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