Published December 2006
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Journal article
Calibration of a horizontally acting force transducer with the use of a simple pendulum
- 1. BioInstrumentation Laboratory, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 and Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 (United States)
- 2. BioInstrumentation Laboratory, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 (United States)
Description
This article details the implementation of a method for calibrating horizontally measuring force transducers using a pendulum. The technique exploits the sinusoidal inertial force generated by a suspended mass as it pendulates about a point on the measurement axis of the force transducer. The method is used to calibrate a reconfigurable, custom-made force transducer based on exchangeable cantilevers with stiffness ranging from 10 to 104 N/m. In this implementation, the relative combined standard uncertainty in the calibrated transducer stiffness is 0.41% while the repeatability of the calibration technique is 0.46%
Additional details
Identifiers
- DOI
- 10.1063/1.2403121;
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Review of Scientific Instruments
- Journal Volume
- 77
- Journal Issue
- 12
- Journal Page Range
- p. 125103-125103.6
- ISSN
- 0034-6748
- CODEN
- RSINAK
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 38101311
- Subject category
- S46: INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY; S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
- Descriptors DEI
- CALIBRATION; FLEXIBILITY; IMPLEMENTATION; MASS; STANDARDS; TRANSDUCERS
- Descriptors DEC
- MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; TENSILE PROPERTIES
Optional Information
- Notes
- (c) 2006 American Institute of Physics