SYMPOSIA PAPER Published: 01 January 1958
STP45031S

Temperature Compensation of High-Temperature Strain Gages

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Recent investigations on the thermal behavior of aircraft structures undertaken for the Wright Air Development Center by Allied Research Associates, Inc., included a series of laboratory tests on the Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton Nichrome V foil high-temperature strain gage, type HFN-3. The test results indicated that biaxial strain conditions make it impractical, for high-intensity transient thermal loading of aircraft structures, to attempt compensation for the effects of temperature on strain gage readings by the use of a temperature-compensating dummy gage. Therefore, a temperature-compensation calibration curve was prepared for the Nichrome V foil gage. For this purpose, thermal strain data were compiled with this gage bonded to a free aluminum plate. Temperature-compensated data taken from similar gages mounted on a simple cantilever aluminum strip subjected to combined mechanical and thermal inputs were then compared with the strain measurements obtained by the free-plate method with favorable results. Sufficient data were obtained to permit the construction of a calibration curve for application of this gage bonded to other metals as well. The results of these tests are presented graphically accompanied by a brief description of the experimental procedure.

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Gray, Edward, I.
Allied Research Associates, Inc., Boston, Mass.
Grossman, Arthur
Allied Research Associates, Inc., Boston, Mass.
Rubin, Melvin, R.
Allied Research Associates, Inc., Boston, Mass.
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Developed by Committee: E28
Pages: 34–41
DOI: 10.1520/STP45031S
ISBN-EB: 978-0-8031-5950-1
ISBN-13: 978-0-8031-6104-7