Manufacturers of test machines, aircraft, spacecraft, automotive components, consumer products, heavy machinery, bridges, energy production equipment, and industrial systems use our fatigue-rated load cells.
Fatigue testing is valuable for engineers to confirm their product designs and structures are safe and reliable. By understanding the fatigue behaviour of materials, engineers can design components resistant to fatigue failure.
Strain gauge load cells are vital for accurate fatigue testing. These devices measure the forces and stresses exerted on a test specimen during cyclic loading. The fatigue life of a specimen is the number of cycles it takes to fail. This data can be used to create stress-life or strain-life curves, which are used to predict the fatigue life of components under different loading conditions.
In a fatigue testing setup, fatigue-rated load cells and data logging instrumentation are used for testing materials, parts, or assemblies for weakness, and often ultimately to destruction. Load cells are typically attached to the specimen, or the test machine, and the cyclic loading is applied according to the test protocol.
