Strain gauge fundamentals

The three day seminar provides practical and theoretical advice and covers a variety of topics, beginning with an introduction to strain gauges (SGs), which looks at the fundamental relations between strain, mechanical stress and electrical resistance and the characteristics of SG installations on plastics. 

The course also includes installation with both hot and cold curing adhesive; connections of strain gauges for measurements; installations in composites and plastic casts; calibration of measurement chains; and determination of strains with unknown principal direction.