LATEST NEWS
Imetrum appoints new MD
Jul 2008
Imetrum is pleased to announce the appointment of John Brewster as Managing Director More info...
Even greater accuracy for Imetrum Video Gauge digital image correlation system
Jul 2008
The Video Gauge now achieves strain resolutions down to 5 microstrain More info...
LATEST EVENTS
EMex 2008
10 Sep 2008
National Physics Laboratory, London, UK More info...
EMex 2007
05 Sep 2007
Manchester University, UK More info...
BSSM - Measuring with Vision
03 May 2007
Bristol, UK More info...
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It is a non-contact, video based instrument with applications in material testing, component testing and structural monitoring.
The Video Gauge is frequently used to overcome challenging measurement problems such as high temperature or high-speed material testing.
For straightforward tasks such as batch testing of material properties it offers significant time and cost savings over traditional methods.
Case Study
Measuring size effects in the strain to failure of cast adhesive samples
The problem
Peak strains in structural adhesive bonds are highly localised. In order to develop adequate methods for the prediction of failure in bonded joints the effect of changing the volume of stressed material on the stress and strain at failure must be found. To do this three sample sizes were taken and a stress / strain had to be measured for each one.
The solution
Structural Monitoring
- Civil engineering structures
- Aerospace
- Power generation
- Continuous monitoring 24/7
- Displacement measurement
- Rotation / bend measurement
Material Testing
- High temperature
- High speed impact testing
- High strain > 100%
- Small / delicate samples
- Biological /soft samples
- Batch testing
Component Testing
- Crack growth monitoring
- Cyclic / fatigue testing
- Profile of bending beam
- Displacement measurement
- Rotation / bend measurement
- Strain measurement