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Temp Compensation
Temp Compensation
Carrier Materials
1. Minimum thickness
2. High mechanical strength
3. High dielectric strength
4. Minimum temperature restrictions
5. Good adherence to cement used
6. Non-hygroscopic.
Temperature Compensation
The ideal strain gauge would change resistance in accordance with stress-
producing deformations in the structural surface to which it was bonded and for no
other reason. Unfortunately, gauge resistance is affected by many other factors,
out of which temperature is very important.
F = gauge factor
R = resistance of gauge
T = rise in temperature.
Equation holds only for small values of T , where , and can be
considered constant. For large values of T , average values of these factors might
be used without introducing large errors.
This method would appear to have a better chance of success than the self-
temperature compensated gauge because the relative resistance of the filament is
not critical. If will always be possible after a gauge has been made, to select the
fixed resistance for proper compensation. Furthermore, compensation over a
greater temperature increases. in this case, temperature would not have to be
known very accurately.
4. Compensation by Similar Gauges:
5. Compensation by Computation:
By knowing the temperature characteristics of a strain gauge and the base
metal, and if the temperature can be observed separately, a correction can be
calculated theoretically from Equation and applied to the observed strain.