Description: It is Ideal for student use and classroom demonstrations. Made for maximum flexibility and ease of use for extensive range of experiments. Simply supported and cantilever beam tests with up to four supports with any loading. Three load cells with digital indicators measure reaction forces or act as rigid sinking supports. Precision digital indicators for accurate deflection measurements. Weights and hangers supplied to apply point loads. It is Supplied with five different test beams.
Specification:
1.Bench space needed: 2000 mm x 600 mm (Minimum).
2.Operating temperature range: +5°C to +40°C.
3.Operating relative humidity range: 80% at temperatures <31°C decreasing linearly to 50% at 40°C.
4.Digital Indicators with sockets for connection to data acquisition system.
5.Fitted with digital indicators with sockets for connection to data acquisition system.
6.Five test beams supplied:3 steel: 3.2 mm, 4.8 mm and 6.4 mm thick (nominal)1 brass: 6.4 mm thick (nominal)1 aluminum: 6.4 mm thick (nominal)All beams are of nominal dimensions min 19 mm wide x 1350 mm long.
7.Specimen Beams supplied with the system: 600mm x 15 mm x 310 mm (Min).
8.Ten test beams supplied:4 steel (1 tapered)1 brass1 steel and brass compound2 aluminum (1 with channel cross-section)1 hardwood1 aluminum and wood compound.
9.Versatile Data acquisition System specification: Modern, cost-effective automatic data acquisition hardware, software and accessories to enhance teaching and laboratory sessions.
10.Real-time traces, data capture, monitoring and display of your experiment readings on a computer (PC)Intuitive and easy-to-use software, with clear, customizable display and layout options.
Experiment:
1.Verification of the bending equation.
2.Determination of flexural rigidity and elastic modulus (Young's modulus).
3.Verification of static equilibrium.
4.Deflection of beams on two simple supports with point loads.
5.Reciprocal properties for loads and deflection.
6.Simple and propped cantilevers with any loading.
7.Continuous beams-statically indeterminate cases for simply supported beams and cantilevers on more than two supports with any loading (including measurement of unknown reactions).
8.Simply supported and cantilever beams with sinking supports.
9.The effects of material and section shape on flexural rigidity.
10.Bending characteristics of a brass/steel compound beam, with and without shearing connection between the two layers.
11.Equivalent sections-characteristics of a metal-face wooden beam.
12.Deflections on a non-uniform (tapered) beam or cantilever.
