Handbook of Force Transducers Principles and Components /

• Main Author: Ştefănescu, Dan Mihai (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2011.
• Subjects: Engineering.; Thermodynamics.; Heat engineering.; Heat transfer.; Mass transfer.; Machinery.; Mechatronics.; Engineering Thermodynamics, Heat and Mass Transfer.; Machinery and Machine Elements.

Part I introduces the basic "Principles and Methods of Force Measurement" according to a classification into a dozen of force transducers types: resistive, inductive, capacitive, piezoelectric, electromagnetic, electrodynamic, magnetoelastic, galvanomagnetic (Hall-effect), vibrating wires,...

Table of Contents:

• INTRODUCTION
• ELECTRICAL METHODS OF FORCE MEASUREMENT
• RESISTIVE FORCE TRANSDUCERS
• INDUCTIVE FORCE TRANSDUCERS
• CAPACITIVE FORCE TRANSDUCERS
• PIEZOELECTRIC FORCE TRANSDUCERS (PZFTs)
• ELECTROMAGNETIC FORCE TRANSDUCERS
• ELECTRODYNAMIC FORCE TRANSDUCERS
• MAGNETOELASTIC FORCE TRANSDUCERS
• GALVANOMAGNETIC FORCE TRANSDUCERS
• VIBRATING WIRE FORCE TRANSDUCERS
• RESONATOR FORCE TRANSDUCERS
• ACOUSTIC FORCE TRANSDUCERS
• GYROSCOPIC FORCE TRANSDUCERS
• FORCE BALANCE TECHNIQUES
• MIXED METHODS IN FORCE MEASUREMENTS
• WHEATSTONE BRIDGE - THE BASIC CIRCUIT FOR STRAIN GAUGE FORCE TRANSDUCERS
• STRAIN GAUGES ELECTRONIC CIRCUITS
• CLASSIFICATION OF ELASTIC ELEMENTS
• STRETCHED / COMPRESSED COLUMNS
• STRETCHED / COMPRESSED TUBES
• BENT LAMELLA (CANTILEVER BEAMS)
• BENT AND/OR TORSION SHAFTS... .