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Railcar Structural Testing Case Study

Obvious signs of fatigue — cracks at the corners of doors — had begun to surface on an in-service Railcar. A railcar structural testing case study.

Engineering Data Acquisition Tools: NI-9236 Strain Module

 The most common strain gauge installation configuration is a 350 ohm, quarter bridge.  Quarter bridge installations a generally the easiest and most economical installation for determining structural strain levels.  In the quarter bridge configuration a single element strain gauge is mounted in the principle axial or bending strain direction. One tool that our engineers […]

Engine Test Cell Vibration Monitoring

Engine manufacturing vibration health monitoring, high-speed acquisition and analysis architecture scales up to 100 test cells.