scholarly journals High-precision amplifiers for strain gauge based transducers - first time realized in compact size

ACTA IMEKO ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 31 ◽  
Author(s):  
André W. Schäfer
Keyword(s):  
High Precision ◽  
Strain Gauge ◽  
Strain Gauges ◽  
Compact Size ◽  
First Time

<p class="Abstract"><span lang="EN">In cases where accuracy matters, and in metrology of mechanical quantities such as force, torque or pressure this is definitely the case, are almost exclusively realized by transducers, which are based on strain gauges. To exploit the potential of the widely used high-precision static measurements the demands on </span><span lang="EN-GB">precision amplifiers steadily grow. This paper gives exact details to further progress of the precision amplifiers used and how compact they can be realized nowadays.</span></p>

scholarly journals Diva - A Small Satellite for Global Astrometry and Photometry

1998 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 583-583
Author(s):  
S. Röser ◽  
U. Bastian ◽  
K.S. de Boer ◽  
E. Høg ◽  
E. Schilbach ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High Precision ◽  
Wavelength Range ◽  
Fizeau Interferometer ◽  
Proper Motions ◽  
Small Satellite ◽  
Short Overview ◽  
Photometric Observations ◽  
Photometric Measurements ◽  
First Time ◽  
Astronomy And Astrophysics

DIVA (Double Interferometer for Visual Astrometry) is a Fizeau interferometer on a small satellite. It will perform astrometric and photometric observations of at least 4 million stars. A launch in 2002 and a minimum mission length of 24 months are aimed at. A detailed description of the experiment can be obtained from the DIVA homepage at http://www.aip.de:8080/᷉dso/diva. An overview is given by Röser et al., 1997. The limiting magnitude of DIVA is about V = 15 for spectral types earlier than M0, but drops to about V = 17.5 for stars later than M5. Table 1 gives a short overview on DIVA’s performance. DIVA will carry out a skysurvey complete to V = 12.5. For the first time this survey will comprise precise photometry in at least 8 bands in the wavelength range from 400 to 1000 nm. DIVA will improve parallaxes by a factor of 3 compared to Hipparcos; proper motions by at least a factor of 2 and, in combination with the Hipparcos observations, by a factor of 10 for Hipparcos stars. At least 30 times asmany stars as Hipparcos will be observed, and doing this DIVA will fill the gap in observations between Hipparcos and GAIA. DIVA’s combined astrometric and photometric measurements of high precision will have important impacts on astronomy and astrophysics in the next decade.

Optimum Strain Gauge Application to Bladed Assemblies

2002 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Szwedowicz ◽  
S. M. Senn ◽  
R. S. Abhari
Keyword(s):  
Strain Gauge ◽  
Element Model ◽  
Strain Gauges ◽  
Structural Components ◽  
Algorithm Optimization ◽  
Rotating Blades ◽  
Novel Approach ◽  
Present Technique ◽  
Optimization Function ◽  
Rotating Impeller

Optimum placements of the strain gauges assure reliable vibration measurements of structural components such as rotating blades. Within the framework of cyclic vibration theory, a novel approach has been developed for computation of the optimum gauge positions on tuned bladed discs regarding the determined sensitivity, orthogonality, gradient and distance criteria. The utilized genetic algorithm optimization tool allows for an effective numerical search of suitable solutions of the defined optimization function. A rotating impeller disc represented by a cyclic finite element model demonstrates the application of this method. The present technique can be easily applied to other structural components requiring optimal strain gauge instrumentation.

Research on the Key Technologies for New Large Dual-Platen High-Precision Clamping System

2010 ◽  
Vol 97-101 ◽  
pp. 64-68
Author(s):  
Jian Chen ◽  
Jin Wang ◽  
Guo Dong Lu ◽  
Zheng Qi Ling
Keyword(s):  
High Precision ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Impact Factors ◽  
Adaptive Correction ◽  
Hydraulic Servo ◽  
New Type ◽  
Clamping System ◽  
Plastic Parts ◽  
First Time

High- precision and large scale are the developing trend for injection molding machine clamping system .This paper compared the characteristics of three-platen toggle and dual-platen hydraulic clamping system. The key impact factors that effecting plastic parts` precision from clamping system were discussed systematically first time. Based on these analyses, a new clamping system has been proposed and manufactured to improve the plastics parts` precision, including three new technologies: new type dual-platen structure, parallelism adaptive correction technology and numerical controlled hydraulic servo system technology. It has been applied in practical machine successfully, and experiment result proves that it is effective enough to satisfying the high-precision molding of large plastics parts.

Repeatability and Extended Time Stability Study of an Additively Printed Strain Gauge Under Different Load Conditions

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pradeep Lall ◽  
Jinesh Narangaparambil ◽  
Tony Thomas ◽  
Kyle Schulze
Keyword(s):  
Strain Gauge ◽  
Printed Electronics ◽  
Performance Testing ◽  
Temperature Limit ◽  
Stability Study ◽  
Strain Gauges ◽  
Gauge Factor ◽  
Wearable Electronics ◽  
Strain Sensing ◽  
Sintering Conditions

Abstract Printed electronics has found new applications in wearable electronics owing to the opportunities for integration, and the ability of sustaining folding, flexing and twisting. Continuous monitoring necessitates the production of sensors, which include temperature, humidity, sweat, and strain sensors. In this paper, a process study was performed on the FR4 board while taking into account multiple printing parameters for the direct-write system. The process parameters include ink pressure, print speed, and stand-off height, as well as their effect on the trace profile and print consistency using white light interferometry analysis. The printed traces have also been studied for different sintering conditions while keeping the FR4 board’s temperature limit in mind. The paper also discusses the effect of sintering conditions on mechanical and electrical properties, specifically shear load to failure and resistivity. The data from this was then used to print strain gauges and compared them to commercially available strain gauges. By reporting the gauge factor, the printed strain gauge has been standardized. The conductive ink’s strain sensing capabilities will be studied under tensile cyclic loading (3-point bending) at various strain rates and maximum strains. Long-term performance testing will be carried out using cyclic tensile loads.

scholarly journals ОПТИМІЗАЦІЯ ВИМІРЮВАЛЬНИХ ЗАСОБІВ НАПРУЖЕНО-ДЕФОРМОВАНОГО СТАНУ ЗА ДОПОМОГОЮ ТЕНЗОДАТЧИКІВ

2019 ◽  
pp. 50-56
Author(s):  
Людмила Володимирівна Кузьмич ◽  
Дмитро Петрович Орнатський ◽  
Володимир Павлович Квасніков
Keyword(s):  
Strain Gauge ◽  
Strain State ◽  
Approximation Error ◽  
Strain Gauges ◽  
Mean Square ◽  
Stress Strain ◽  
Stress Strain State ◽  
Destabilizing Factors ◽  
Mechanical Factors ◽  
The Mean

In the article, the principles of construction, design and mathematical modeling of deformation and stresses of complex technical constructions are developed with the help of strain gauges and strain gauges taking into account destabilizing factors, which allows to significantly reduce the level of errors in relation to existing measurement methods and known analogs.The method of digital compensation provides a more significant reduction in the errors of measuring transducers compared with the method of analog compensation. Features and technical indicators of this method are considered on an example of measuring pressure transducer with foil strain gauges.This method is universal, allows us to adjust not only the errors of the measurement channel nonlinearity and additional errors but also the errors associated with the effect of interferences of the general type due to ground resistance, which induces the connection between the measuring channels of the main and destabilizing factor.The disadvantages of this method include a significant amount of computations, which sharply increases with increasing order of approximating polynomials.The purpose is to develop a method and means of measuring stress-strain state using strain gauge, free from the above - mentioned shortcomings.The main destabilizing factors that limit the measurement accuracy using strain gauge are:- random processes (noises, obstacles, etc.);- changes in parameters of measuring transducers due to aging and physical degradation;- effects of external climatic and mechanical factors (temperature, humidity, etc.).The influence of the main destabilizing factors limiting the accuracy of the measurement of the stress-strain state of complex technical constructions with the help of strain gauges was analyzed, among which the influences of external climatic and mechanical factors are one of the most important ones. Regarding the systematic components, the most important in statistical measurements are the errors of nonlinearity and the temperature component of the error.For the study, two main alloys were taken, which today has the widest use as a material for strain gauges - it is constantan and karma. For these materials, the influence of the range of temperature changes, the spread of the values of temperature error on the mean-square value of the error of approximation by power polynomials was investigated.Using the NUMERY package, the dependence of the approximation error on the order of the approximating polyphony was determined. It is established that the mean square error value in the wide temperature range for both constantan and karma has a weak correlation with the order of a polynomial.

scholarly journals Fractional Control of a Lightweight Single Link Flexible Robot Robust to Strain Gauge Sensor Disturbances and Payload Changes

Actuators ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (12) ◽  
pp. 317
Author(s):  
Saddam Gharab ◽  
Selma Benftima ◽  
Vicente Feliu Batlle
Keyword(s):  
Control System ◽  
Strain Gauge ◽  
High Frequency ◽  
Singular Perturbation Theory ◽  
Strain Gauges ◽  
Input State ◽  
Frequency Noise ◽  
Flexible Robot ◽  
Outer Loop ◽  
High Frequency Noise

In this paper, a method to control one degree of freedom lightweight flexible manipulators is investigated. These robots have a single low-frequency and high amplitude vibration mode. They hold actuators with high friction, and sensors which are often strain gauges with offset and high-frequency noise. These problems reduce the motion’s performance and the precision of the robot tip positioning. Moreover, since the carried payload changes in the different tasks, that vibration frequency also changes producing underdamped or even unstable time responses of the closed-loop control system. The actuator friction effect is removed by using a robust two degrees of freedom PID control system which feeds back the actuator position. This is called the inner loop. After, an outer loop is closed that removes the link vibrations and is designed based on the combination of the singular perturbation theory and the input-state linearization technique. A new controller is proposed for this outer loop that: (1) removes the strain gauge offset effects, (2) reduces the risk of saturating the actuator due to the high-frequency noise of strain gauges and (3) achieves high robustness to a change in the payload mass. This last feature prompted us to use a fractional-order PD controller. A procedure for tuning this controller is also proposed. Simulated and experimental results are presented that show that its performance overcomes those of PD controllers, which are the controllers usually employed in the input-state linearization of second-order systems.

scholarly journals Comparison analysis of using micrometers and strain gauges for measuring deformations and loads in the method of monitoring the stress-strain state

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 71-75
Author(s):  
M. O. Lobovskiy ◽  
◽  
A. L. Tukkiya ◽  
P. A. Pyatkin ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Strain Gauge ◽  
Laboratory Tests ◽  
Strain State ◽  
Field Tests ◽  
Strain Gauges ◽  
Construction Site ◽  
Comparison Analysis ◽  
Stress Strain ◽  
Stress Strain State

The micrometer method for measuring deformations and loads in bar elements has proved to be effective not only in laboratory tests, but also in field tests on a real construction site. Having carried out a comparative analysis of the method proposed by the authors for monitoring the stress-strain state (SSS) with the strain gauge method which is widely used at present, the authors have proved that the method for measuring deformations and loads using a micrometer is not inferior in accuracy to the strain gauge method, although it is much cheaper.

scholarly journals A practical approach to evaluate the measurement uncertainty budget for calibration of strain gauge based high-precision carrier frequency amplifiers

ACTA IMEKO ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 210
Author(s):  
Marco M. Schäck
Keyword(s):  
Measurement Uncertainty ◽  
High Precision ◽  
Strain Gauge ◽  
Carrier Frequency ◽  
Uncertainty Budget ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Precision Measurements ◽  
Frequency Method ◽  
Physical Limit ◽  
Measurement Uncertainty Budget

For high-precision measurements of strain gauge-based transducers, 225 Hz carrier frequency measuring amplifiers are primarily used. The benefits of this carrier frequency method were discussed in previous publications. This publication shows the measurement uncertainty that can be achieved by calibrating an amplifier based on this method. Possibilities for improving the measurement uncertainty and the physical limit from the user's point of view are shown.

scholarly journals DIC (Digital Image Correlation) method in the research of RC beams strengthened with PBO-FRCM materials

2019 ◽  
Vol 97 ◽  
pp. 03008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dorota Marcinczak ◽  
Tomasz Trapko
Keyword(s):  
Composite Materials ◽  
Digital Image Correlation ◽  
Digital Image ◽  
Strain Gauge ◽  
Concrete Beam ◽  
Correlation Method ◽  
Reinforced Concrete Beam ◽  
Image Correlation ◽  
Strain Gauges ◽  
Reference Image

The article presents tests of a reinforced concrete beam strengthened in a shear with PBO-FRCM composite materials. Measurement of the deformation of the composite was carried out using two methods - with strain gauges and the optical DIC method (Digital Image Correlation). The DIC method consists in taking a series of photographs of the tested object before and during loading. The surface of the tested element must have randomly spaced spots that are applied to the object before measurement. During the study, the cameras monitor the shifting of spots against each other, which in comparison to the reference image before loading gives information about strains and stresses of the tested element. Measurements of deformation of composite materials using strain gauges are difficult to clearly analyse, because the strain gauge is in a specific, limited place, which does not correspond to the work of the entire composite. In addition, the strain gauge tends to break at the place of crack. The article discusses this problem by presenting the results of deformation of PBO-FRCM composite meshes measured in two mentioned ways, their comparison and discussion of results.

scholarly journals Tunable Duplex Metalens Based on Phase-Change Materials in Communication Range

Nanomaterials ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (7) ◽  
pp. 993 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wei Bai ◽  
Ping Yang ◽  
Shuai Wang ◽  
Jie Huang ◽  
Dingbo Chen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Phase Change ◽  
Phase Change Material ◽  
Phase Change Materials ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Special Unit ◽  
Compact Size ◽  
Unit Cells ◽  
First Time ◽  
Change Material ◽  
Different Sources

Metalenses recently have attracted attention because of their more compact size in comparison with conventional lenses; they can also achieve better optical performance with higher resolution. Duplexer is an interesting function of a metalens that can distinguish different sources and divide them into two parts for specific purposes. In this article, we design tunable duplex metalenses with phase-change material Ge2Sb2Te5 for the first time. Two types of special unit cells are designed to modulate the incident lights, and four metalenses are designed based on the two types of unit cells. Specific phase profiles are calculated for different sections of metalens in which the corresponding unit cells are settled; accordingly, the metalenses can focus the incident lights at any positions according to our design. Moreover, the metalenses become selectable via tuning the state of phase-change material, which means that the output light field can be actively controlled. The proposal of our tunable duplex metalenses will offer new opportunities for active three-dimensional imaging or optical coding.

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