Interface shear transducer

• US 4,155,265 A
• Filed: 03/30/1978
• Issued: 05/22/1979
• Est. Priority Date: 03/30/1978
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: United States Of America As Represented By The Secretary Of The Air Force
• Original Assignee: United States Of America As Represented By The Secretary Of The Air Force
• Inventors: Cochrane, Glenn F. Jr., Pickett, Stephen F.
• Primary Examiner(s): Gorenstein, Charles
• Application Number:
  US05/891,798
• Time in Patent Office: 418 Days
• Field of Search: 73/88.5 R, 73/88 E, 73/101, 73/141 A, 73/765, 73/784, 73/841
• US Class Current: 73/841
• CPC Class Codes: G01L 1/2218 the supports being of the column type, e.g. cylindric, adapted for measuring a force along a single direction
• CPC Class Codes: G01L 1/26 Auxiliary measures taken, or devices used, in connection with the measurement of force, e.g. for preventing influence of transverse components of force, for preventing overload

Abstract

A shear transducer having two cylindrical bending beams with two full strain gage bridges so arranged to cancel acceleration induced by forces in the axis of interest.

Claims

1. An interface shear transducer measuring device:

comprising a case;

a first sleeve mounted within the case; and

extending along an axis;

a second sleeve mounted within the case and extending along the same axis as said first sleeve, but in the opposite direction;

a primary element mounted within the case and between the first and second sleeves;

a first and second cantilever beam extending away from said primary element along the axis of the first and second sleeve and respectively co-incentrically within each sleeve and said first beam so positioned that its face extends to the limits of the case and is exposed therefrom;

a first pair of strain gages mounted on said first beam to measure bending movements of the beam in one direction;

a second pair of strain gages, mounted on said second beam to measure bending movements of the beam in cooperation with said first pair, and electrical circuit means connected with said first and second pairs for measuring the output of the strain gages connected thereto.

2. An interface shear transducer measuring device according to claim 1 wherein the face of said first and second beams are covered with a material of the type similar to the structure under test.

3. An interface shear transducer measuring device according to claim 1 further including:

a third pair of strain gages mounted on said first beam to measure bending movements of the beam in one a second direction;

a fourth pair of strain gages mounted on said second beam to measure bending movements of the beam in cooperation with said third pair, and electrical circuit means connected with said third and fourth pairs for measuring the output of the strain gages connected thereto.

4. An interface shear transducer measuring device according to claim 1 wherein, said first and second pair measure bending movements in the vertical direction.

5. An interface shear transducer measuring device according to claim 3 wherein, said third and fourth pair measure bending movements in the horizontal direction.

6. An interface shear transducer measuring device according to claim 1 wherein, said electrical circuit means is a bridge circuit.

7. An interface shear transducer measuring device according to claim 3 wherein, the electrical circuit means connecting said first and second pair and said third and fourth pair is a bridge circuit.