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Extensometer for Determining Strains on a Tensile and Torsion Simultaneous Load
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: Received: 18 November 2019 / Approved: 19 November 2019 / Online: 19 November 2019 (10:10:14 CET)
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Goanta, V. Extensometer for Determining Strains on a Tensile and Torsion Simultaneous Load. Sensors 2020, 20, 385. Goanta, V. Extensometer for Determining Strains on a Tensile and Torsion Simultaneous Load. Sensors 2020, 20, 385.
Abstract
The paper presents an extensometer designed to measure two mechanical strains at the same time—one from tensile load and the other from torsion load. Strain transducers provide different electric signals, which, after calibration, lead to the simultaneous measurement of linear (ε) and angular (γ) strains. Each of these two signals depends on the measured process and is not influenced by the other strain process. This extensometer is designed to be easily mounted on the sample with only two mounting points and can be used to measure the combined cyclical fatigue of tensile and torsional loadings. This extensometer has two bars—one rigid, reported at the resulting stress points, and one elastic and deformable. The elastic deformable bar has two beams with different orientations. When the sample is deformed, both beams are loaded by two bending moments (perpendicular to each other and both perpendicular on the longitudinal axis of the bars).
Keywords
extensometer; tensile strain; shear strain; calibration; elastic deformation; combined loads
Subject
Engineering, Mechanical Engineering
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