One of a range of experiment modules that fit to the Structures platform Structures platform STS1 (available separately), this product helps students to understand the bending stresses at various positions of a beam section due to a load.Students add loads to an inverted T-section beam held on two supports. Strain gauges at different heights up the beam measure the strains due to the load. A load cell measures the force applied at the mid span of the beam.
Students apply the load and measure the resulting strains.They use textbook beam equations to predict the stresses and bending moments for any given load, comparing them to measured results. This helps confirm the reliability of the textbook equations and the accuracy of the experiment results.
This product includes a Vernier caliper for accurate measurement of the beam cross-section.
The strain gauges connect to a strain gauge amplifier, which connects (with the load cell) to the USB interface hub of the Structures platform for computer display and data acquisition.
*There are 21 different experiments in the Next Generation Structures range.
This TecQuipment experiment illustrates and proves the basic theory of bending moments in a beam, mounts on the Structures platform (STS1) and connects to the Structures automatic data acquisition unit and software.
Experiment for investigations into two common curved structures and two common davit structures. Mounts on the Structures platform and connects to the Structures automatic data acquisition unit and software.
