7 experiment procedure

The force measurement is carried out with a set of weights, whose

mass of up to maximum 4 kg big can be used to load a tension bar,
flection bar and a torsion rod. A fine adjustment of 100 g is possible.
The amplifier is to be adjusted to zero before each measurement of the
amplifier (offset compensation) as is the measurement bridge to be
used in conjunction with the amplifier (bridge zero balancing). Only
then can the force measurements be made (without any essential drift
effect of the amplifier), see chapter 7.1

As each measurements body has 4 strain gauges, we preferably work

with the circuit shown in fig 7-1, assembled with the training panels LH
743 55 (strain gauge transducer) LH 727 66 (amplifier with zero
potentiometer po and the bridge supply ub) and the display instrument
LH 727 41 plus a mains power supply unit LH 7266 86 with 15
supply voltage.

Fig 7 1 measurement circuit for strain gauge bridges

In chapter 7.2 measurements are carried out which describe the effect
of the line impedance (RL) on the measurement result (amplifier bridge
voltage0 = 1 ). For this the bridge is assembled, which shows
the line most effect clearly, the flection bar serves as sensor, with
which the greatest strain for the strain gauge is realized.

Force Meusurement With Strain Gauge

The line effect is this measurement assembly can be clearly
differentiated from this measured value effect, when these effects are
avoked alternately.

7.1 force measurement using the strain gauge full bridge

The following measurements with the tensile bar (TTB) flection bar (FB)
and torsion rod (TR) are carried out with full bridge circuits, because
the strain which can be produced on the strain gauge are low when the
measurement specimen is under the load with a weight of maximum
4kg. this results in measurement voltage 1 in the diagonal bridges
amounting to at most 0,5 mV (TTB), or 8,2 mV (FB), 4,7 mV (TR), which
must be heavily boosted, in order to obtain as much pointer deflection
on the 10 V display instrument as possible.

7.1.1 Tensile test bar, circuit specified in fig 7-1

The tensile test bar is screwed tightly into the mount of the strain
gauge panel and the strain gauge is connected to the supply voltage
= 10 for this experiment and connected with short circuit
connectors from the amplifier panel. The diagonal voltage of the bridge
is applied with additional connectors to the amplifier input (+) and (-
). Furthermore, the zero potentiometer is connected and the zero
current supplied to the dividing point between B1 and B2 via (plug in
resistor), see fig 7-1. For the tensile test bar used here and the
tolerances of the strain gauge specified for it = 22 proved to be
very appropriate, whereby can be finely set in range for this zero
balancing of the bridge, after the offset compensation of the amplifier
has been completed. is selected as large possible.

Offset Compensation

For the compensation of the constant components of the offset

variables, the amplifiers differential input is short circuited and its gain
is set approximately to the necessary value (for the subsequent for
measurement). As the bridge signal which can be obtained only amount
to approximately = 0,5 , the value of V is set to 10.000 (the
maximum possible value). Since the output already supplies a voltage
, the grub screw of the offset potentiometer is adjusted so that =
0.

Bridge zero balancing

Due to the tolerance of the strain gauge, the bridge diagonal voltage is
0 for the unloaded measurement body, I.e, a dummy or false
measured value is indicated. In order to obtain = 0, a small current
is supplied to the junction or point of division between B1 and B2,
which partially shifts the division potential so that the desired zero
balancing is.

TPS 8.1.2.1 Force measurement with strain gauge

Realized. This is carried out by the potentiometer (1000 ), which,

for the tensile test bar, must be set to 85% of its maximum setting
range.

Result : = 22 and = 0.85.