introduction

Shafts that have been bent and twisted are common in many applications.
applications in engineering By applying Saint Venant's and the notion of
The stress at the shaft's surface can be studied using superposition.
, the stress at the surface of the shaft may be analyzed.
The main purpose of the experiment is to analyze this kind of problems using the
strain gauge technique and to compare the experimental results with theoretical
result.
As the strain gauge technique enables only the determination of state of strain at
At a certain point, Hooke’s law equations are used to calculate the stress components. In
In this experiment, the elastic constants of the test material are firstly determined.
 The procedure

❖ Lock the clamps around the specimen.

❖ To prevent torsional sliding, secure the loading plate horizontally by
tightening the clamping screws.
❖ The equipment should be set up on a work surface with the loading plate
free to hang over the side.
❖ adjust the dial gauge to zero by moving the bezel to zero with respect to
the large pointer.
❖ move the hanger to zero degree dimple and record the dial gauge reading.
❖ add loads to the load hanger and record all the values you go from the
dial gauge.
❖ repeat the last step until the end of linearity approaches, then reduce the
load.
❖ After reaching non-linearity, the load hanger should be unloaded and
removed, and the procedure should be repeated at each angle increment
until 90 degrees is reached, with the dial gauge relocated 15 degrees to
the left of the load hanger.
❖ Every time, the dial gauge should be re-zeroed.
❖ Then, starting from 90 degrees to 0 degrees, the new sample replaces the
old one.