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Improved Strain Gage Instrumentation Strategies For Rotorcraft Blade Measurements, Timothy S. Davis
Improved Strain Gage Instrumentation Strategies For Rotorcraft Blade Measurements, Timothy S. Davis
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In this work, a new strategy is presented to wire, calibrate, and measure strain gages for rotor blade testing that will provide more information and is robust to individual gage loss. The additional information can be used in several ways. including reducing redundancy, offering rapid identification of damage locations, and in some cases reducing risk allowing tests to continue to collect calibrated data after one or more sensors have failed. This strategy replaces the classical four-gage full Wheatstone bridge with four separately wired quarter bridges that are combined into a full bridge in the data acquisition system using a calculated …