Strain Definition and 413 Threads

Hi! Im measuring how much wood expands in different temperatures using a strain gauge. do i need to use a wheatstone bridge circuit schematic? or else how do i heat up the wood without spoiling the strain gauge. Actually how will i heat up the wood anyway? Also how would i draw a diagram to...

Hello, could someone help on this question?? ok, I'm trying to find out how much a piece of wood expands and contracts with changes in humidity and temperature, I'm sticking a strain gauge on the wood to detect the expansion and contraction of it. my question is if the temperature increase...

when talking about strain gauges, what does 'drift' refer to exactly?

Need to do an experiment where I masure the strain of wood due to changes in temperature. I believe I need to use 2 strain gauges, one to measure the strain and the other to act as a dummy to cancel out any affects that heating will have on the strain gauge. I also know that a wheatstone bridge...

Homework Statement A rectangular steel bar has length 250 mm, width 50 mm, and thickness 25 mm. The bar is subjected to a compressive force of 450 kN on the 250 mm x 50 mm face, a tensile force of 450 kN on the 250 mm x 25 mm face, and a tensile force of 45 kN on the 50 mm x 25 mm face...

Homework Statement figure whatever represents an insect caught at the midpoint of a spider-web thread. The thread breaks under a stress of 8.2 x 10^8 N/m^2 and a strain of 2. Initially, it was horizontal and had a length of 2cm and a cross-sectional area of 8 x 10^-12 m^2. As the thread was...

Hi i have just been given my physics coursework and wondered if anyone had any pointers or tips on how to answer? The question is on the expansion and contraction of wood with changes in temperature and humidity using a strain gauge. We have to explain how we would use lab equipment to...

hi I've just been given this piece of coursework which is the latest(2008) version and I am just wondering if I could get any help on this? thnx! :cheesy grin: The manufacturers of wood floors need to know how much the wood expands and contracts with changes in humidity and temperature. One...

Or know of any good tutorials? This is a PAIN to do by hand.

I have a lab where we used the following equation to theroretically measure the strain on a cantilever beam heald stationary at the left end. Measuring back from the right side its length is L2 and the length from the free (right) end to the point where the strain gagues were was L1 (fixed...

Hi all, i hope that i am in the right forum. As you see in my topic i have a problem with Roark's formula especially for elastic stability of plates and shells. The formula i got a problem with is the following: If you have the book: sixth edition: page 689 table 35 formula 15. or...

The last question on my homework (always the hardest). Homework Statement A wire of diameter 1.0mm and length 2.3m is made of copper. Young modulus is 1.1 x 10^11. Find: a) The cross-section of the wire in m² b) The strain if the wire is stretched by 0.85mm c) The stress d) The force...

I am working on the development of an instrument which can be simply thought of as a cantilever tube. This tube is instrumented with strain gauges to measure the X/Y strains and two sets of rosettes, each consisting of two strain gauges at 45 degree. Note that the X/Y are 3-wire half bridge and...

I am currently trying to learn about pressure transducers. There are two configurations which have been suggested for a particular pressure transducer -- 1) a circular diaphragm strain gage and 2) a rectangular diaphragm strain gage. Each configuration has four strain gages. For 1) there are...

I have a cantilever with one fixed end and a point force on the other end. The cantilever beam itself is a perfect rectangular prism. We used a strain gage to measure the strain values, so how would I calculate the point force? I know the value for Young's Modulus of the cantilever used. Any...

Hi all, I have a problem with respect to axial strain.As far as I know the axial strain is calculated by using the formula given below. Strain=(L-Lo)/Lo where Lo : Orginal length and L : current length. However, another formula is written in one of the program manuals I have been...

Homework Statement I've got a problem that I can't figure out. It deals with strain. I've got a box, sitting on the x-y axis(like normal x-y axis's are). The box extends 4 inches from the origin in the x direction, and 2 inches up. Going clockwise(starting at origin) the corners are...

1. Find modulus of toughness Given Data : Load (kip) 0.00 1.50 4.60 8.00 11.00 11.80 11.80 12.00 16.60 20.00 21.50 19.50 18.50 Elongation 0.0000 0.0005 0.0015 0.0025 0.0035 0.0050 0.0080 0.0200 0.0400 0.1000 0.2800 0.4000 0.4600Lenght= 2 in Diameter= 0.501 in 2. Homework Equations ...

"Calculate the initial diameter of a wire that has been longitudinally strained by 30% and whose final diameter is 0.1cm. Assume no volume change." Now I know that if there is no volume change, v=poisson's ratio= 0.5. Thus the lateral strain would equal 30%*0.5= 15%. But when I plug it...

Just a question. The internet is mixed with this. But in a Stress Strain Graph; after the YIELD POINT, does the material experience more strain for a lesser stress? I.e. does it slightly curve down before going up?

Looking for a Tutorial on Stress and Strain and couldn't find it >.< Please help:frown:

First, I am not the greatest at LaTex so if I screw this post up I will go back and try to clarify. I will skip some steps, but get the general gist of everything. Ok, I am following the derivation of the resistive strain gauge equations starting from the basic form of resistance of a wire...

I am trying to figure out a couple questions involving strain gauges. First of all, how is the gauge factor physically determined. Anyone know the process by which a company gets that. I am particularly using a Vishay strain gauge with a GF of 2.035, and indeed in practice most standard...

I am trying to determine some failure modes of strain gauges and the means of accomplishing some of them. Things like loose leads, debonding, physical damage, thermal effects, doing things that cause saturation. I am looking for ideas of what other failure modes are and ways to accomplish...

Appreciate if someone can take the time to check my answers to the following question. If wrong, could you point me in the right direction. A round bar, 800 mm long, CSA 15 mm^2 experiences an applied tensile load of 6 kN and stretches elastically by 3 mm.a) Calculate the tensile stress in the...

Hey everyone. Quick question about the Mohr circle. If I have got the major and minor stress from a Mohr Circle of stress how do you go about finding the major and minor strains? Can you just use Young's Modulus equation and value for Young's Modulus or will I need to construct Mohr...

Hi, desperately need help with this assignment question as its in for 2moro! "At a point on the surface of a shaft with diameter of 100mm, a 45deg rosette strain gauge is positioned with the middle gauge along the axis of the shaft. The gauges measure strains of a= -0.00015, b = 0.0003, c =...

Hi, desperately need help with this assignment question as its in for 2moro! "At a point on the surface of a shaft with diameter of 100mm, a 45deg rosette strain gauge is positioned with the middle gauge along the axis of the shaft. The gauges measure strains of a= -0.00015, b = 0.0003, c =...

Hi, I know that strain is a unit less quantity (Tensile Strain) but whether Strain is a scalar quantity or not? If it is a scalar quantity then why? Regards, Muhammad Rizwan Khalil

One type of steel has a density of 7000 kg/m^3 and a breaking stress of 7.30×10^8 Pa. A cylindrical guitar string is to be made out of a quantity of steel with a mass of 3.50 g. What is the length of the longest and thinnest string that can be placed under a tension of 930 N without breaking...

Homework Statement How do I solve the following block to find the volumetric strain. Its question 3 on the link http://img201.imageshack.us/my.php?image=file0001pf0.jpg I know that volumetric strain is equal to change in volume EV/ origninal volume(V) Is Ev = Ex + Ey +...

The quantity "strain" expressed in terms of the fundamental quantities (mass, length, time) is equivelent to? isn't this dimensionless?

How would I approach the problem of calculating the amount of force necessary to enduce a certain flexural strain on a piece of alumnium? Would I use Young's Modulus and if so how would I use it? Thanks, -scott

Hello, How is non-uniaxial strain defined? How would Nitinol's 8% maximum strain before failure be defined as in terms of other than stretch? How does one define the 8% in terms of bending the wire? So in other words how much bending of the wire equates to an 8% strain limit? Thanks...

Q: A copper wire of diameter d is stretched by a load hanging vertically from its lower end . The strain of the wire is 8.0x10^-4 . What's the strain in another copper wire of the same length but of diamteter 2d ? A: 2x10^-4 Q: A light rod of length L hangs from the lower ends of two...

Hello. I'd like to ask you if you know any links to strain gage research sites. I'm going to design a full bridge gage but I'd like to read something first. I'm not talking about gage-maker sites, such as vishay,omega,hbm,etc. I already read them all. I'm interested in more physics-based...

What's the difference between strain & pressure? The formulas look the same...

Hello everyone I study mechanics of materials, curently stress and strain. I don't understand how to figure out those axial forces in specific fields of mechanic construction. Picture 1 - Construction 1: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v309/Andreii/P9150003.jpg" Picture 2 - Construction...

what is the difference between force-elongation and stress - strain diagram?? pls show some example such as diagrams for future reference thanx

Hello. Does anyone here use and LED light for their desk? I am a college student and spend a lot of time at my desk reading. I get pretty bad eye strain from reading so much. I am thinking about getting one of these LED lamps. Also, does anyone use any other type of lamp that is better...

If I have thin shell like a beach ball inflated with air how would I calculate the change in radius and resistance there of due to the pressure inside the sphere? I have calculated the strain on the sphere to be Pr/2h where P=pressure r=radius h= thickness by cutting the sphere in half and...

The Ultimate tensile strength of steel is 470MPa. Assuming a factor of safety of 5 the maximum working load an 8.00mm diameter round steel bar should support against gravity is?

How can the electric polarization be induced by the strain gradient? It is said in some papers the strain gradient can induce electric polarization in solid materials. Why can it happen? Who can explain this phenomenon to me?

I have been given kind of a bonus question that requires a little thinking and I wanted to ask if I am going in the right direction with my thinking as I am new to Materials Science. Given: Ballistics test in which a high velocity projectile is fired at a block of material. Isotropic. Does...

Not really something I would expect most people to know so I will keep it out of the Homework help section (it is not homework) I am working on distributed strain sensing with fibre optic Bragg gratings for aircraft. For those that don't know, FO Bragg gratings are a periodic variation in...

This kind of had me puzzled for the last week. If you apply a tensile stress on a body, it will elongate, and get a little bit thinner. The amount of stretch will be a function of the stresses. But then I started wondering, "Well, if that’s the case, then it will stretch and get a little...

My statics text says the following: The relationship between axial stress and strain can be represented by the equation \sigma = E\epsilon "At higher levels of stress, the following nonlinear equation may be a better fit to describe the correlation between axial stress and strain: \sigma...

why is strain energy (i.e. the work done in stretching a wire) regarded as a form of potential energy? ehm i don't really know how to explain this. anyone help?

Humm.. I actually have a biology question. I don't normally troll around in this part of PF, so I don't know if it has been asked before. There have been advice to not use antibacterial soaps, and reducing the frequency of use of antibiotics. The reason for this is the report on the more...

J must count acceleration of each weight and the force of strain thread. Here is a picture: