Bridging strain gauges isn’t a new idea. However, the novelty of this design is that the PCB has cantilever beams that facilitate the weighing. Standoffs mount a plate to the beams so that ...

In this column, we focus on a Mode I fracture mechanics test for sandwich composites that’s approaching ASTM standardization — the Single Cantilever Beam (SCB ... is calculated as where ΔU is the loss ...