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The use of strain gauges to determine the principal axes of composite beams of unsymmetrical section
Author(s) -
LAKIN D. F.
Publication year - 1981
Publication title -
strain
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.477
H-Index - 47
eISSN - 1475-1305
pISSN - 0039-2103
DOI - 10.1111/j.1475-1305.1981.tb00369.x
Subject(s) - strain gauge , section (typography) , composite number , principal axis theorem , structural engineering , strain (injury) , principal (computer security) , materials science , principal stress , composite material , geometry , engineering , mathematics , computer science , shear (geology) , medicine , operating system
Strain gauges were used to obtain experimentally the principal axes of two composite beams. The method shown is easy to use and can give results which agree closely with calculated values, and may be applied to complex composite section beams.