Chapter 4
Understanding the Strain Gage Multiplexers
About This Chapter
This chapter describes the strain measurement procedure used by the
examples in Chapter 3, and also describes the measurement circuitry
associated with
1
⁄
4
,
1
⁄
2
, and full bridge measurements. The sections of this
chapter are:
•
Making Strain Measurements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Page 49
•
Strain Gage Multiplexer Block Diagrams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Page 52
•
Understanding the Strain Gage Measurement
Circuits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Page 53
•
Understanding the Bridge Configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Page 58
•
Measurements Using an External Voltmeter. . . . . . . . . . . . . Page 63
•
Voltage and Resistance Measurements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Page 64
Making Strain Measurements
This section explains the procedure used to make strain measurements.
Also covered are the equations (in the instrument firmware) which calculate
the measured strain.
Strain
Measurement
Procedure
The procedure for making strain measurements with the HP E1355A -
E1358A Strain Gage Multiplexers and HP E1326B/E1411B Multimeter is:
1. Specify the Gage Factor and, for Poisson configurations, the Poisson
Ratio.
STRain:GFACtor
gage_factor
,(@
channel_list
)
STRain:POISson
poisson_ratio
,(@
channel_list
)
One gage_factor and poisson_ratio (Poisson configurations) must be
specified for each channel.
2. Measure the unstrained reference voltage.
CALibration:STRain (@
channel_list
)
One unstrained reference voltage measurement must be made on
each channel. Note that this command leaves the HP
E1326B/E1411B Multimeter configured for an unstrained reference
voltage measurement. The multimeter must be reconfigured to make
the strain measurement (Step 4).
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