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strain gauge

strain gauge

6.3
A small object that measures how much a surface stretches or bends
  • noun
  • /streɪn ɡeɪdʒ/
  • Specialized
translation icon : galga de deformación
  • The engineer installed a strain gauge to monitor the stress on the bridge under heavy traffic.
  • foil strain gauge
  • strain gauge rosette
  • strain gauge transducer

What can you use to measure this compression that does not change a strain gauge?

Examples

  • The I-beam is constructed by drilling a hole through the steel block where the strain gauges are placed.

    Academic text (2000)

  • The LN-100 was designed as a highly sensitive drop-in replacement for metal foil strain gauges.

    Academic text (2000)

  • A version of this strain gauge is being used on the TSLC.

    Academic text (2000)

  • The force at the fingertip was monitored by a strain gauge load cell.

    Academic text (1992)

  • Most power plants use fluid-filled transmitters that operate on capacitance, strain gauge, or force balance principles.

    Academic text (1994)

  • The NSMS has been developed as an alternative to the strain gauge to monitor rotor-blade vibrations in rotating machinery.

    Academic text (1996)

  • A bonded foil strain gauge full bridge provides a customer-specified output of 1 or 2 mV/V.

    Academic text (1998)

  • In this calculation, the strain gauge outputs were corrected for gauge transverse sensitivity and nonlinearity.

    Academic text (1995)

  • The locations of the reinforcing bars and strain gauges are shown in Fig. 1(a), 1(c), 1(f), and 1(h).

    Academic text (2017)

  • Researchers used a strain gauge to measure how much the metal beam bent during the experiment.

Synonyms

strain gage
vsstrain gauge
  • Specialized
6.1

A tool that measures how much a material changes shape when pushed or pulled

is the same device but uses an alternate spelling of the term

Surface Forms

strain gauge singular
strain gauges plural

Morphology

strain + gauge

The meaning 'a device used to measure strain' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'strain' (deformation) with 'gauge' (measuring device); the compound literally names what it does. The noun+noun compounding pattern is regular and common across languages, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily infer the meaning.

Etymology

The name strain gauge comes from the words strain, meaning the force that makes something 'stretch' or change shape, and gauge, a small 'tool' that shows size or amount. Imagine a tiny device stuck to a metal beam that bends a little and the gauge shows that movement, so a strain gauge is a device that 'measures' very small stretches.