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Performance tests of wire strain gages. 2, Calibration factors in compression

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Campbell, William R. author
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Results of calibratios in axial compression over the strain range 0 to 0.0021 are presented for 15 types of single element multistrand wire strain gages. The majority of gages showed significant di...

Results of calibratios in axial compression over the strain range 0 to 0.0021 are presented for 15 types of single element multistrand wire strain gages. The majority of gages showed significant differences between the calibration factors and strain increasing and strain decreasing. Zero shift and nonlinearity between gage output and strain were present in nearly all gages. Improvement in gage performance after prestraining was apparent in most cases. The maximum difference between the calibration factors for the gages of a given type and the average factor for that type ranged from 1 percent or less for the gages of bypes B, M, ad N to more than 4 percent of the gages of types E, G, I, K, and L.

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