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Experimental Stress Analysis
NOTEBOOK

Vishay Measurements Group

Issue 27 - July 1996

Contents

W3 - Editorial ... Page 1 - Announcement of the Measurement Group's World Wide Website.

Summary of NOTEBOOK Reader Survey - Reader Survey ... Page 2 - Results of reader survey about NOTEBOOK. Summary attached. (See also Issue 26 .)

It (Finally) Snowed - Student Exercise ... Page 2 - A snow storm provides a live load on a roof supported by a roof joist on which strain gages were installed six years earlier. (See also Issue 14 .)

Stresses & Strain in Beams - Student Exercise... Page 3 - A review of beam theory since the first investigations by Galileo Galilei in the 1600's. Includes the contributions made by Mariotte, Bernoulli, Euler, Coulomb, and Navier. A student exercise for experimental verification of the theory is outlined.

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