A study of strain and deformation measurement using the Arduino microcontroller and strain gauges devices

Abstract This paper presents a methodology for the measurement of strain by means of strain-gauges, where the data acquisition is done by using an Arduino Uno board, due to the low-cost and the easy manipulation of this microcontrollers. The measured signal conditioning is performed by means of a Wheatstone Bridge and then discretized by an Analog-Digital Converter (ADC) external to the Arduino. For the validation of the proposed measurement system, experiments are performed on a cantilever beam and on a cantilever-supported shaft, where the experimental results are compared with those obtained analytically and by simulation using the finite element method. The results obtained are in agreement with the literature and demonstrate that the proposed system has satisfactory accuracy.

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Main Authors: Silva,Anderson Langone, Varanis,Marcus, Mereles,Arthur Guilherme, Oliveira,Clivaldo, Balthazar,José Manoel
Format: Digital revista
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Física 2019
Online Access:http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1806-11172019000300401
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