Free Standing Structures Experiments
Experiment

DefleX
Digital image correlation (DIC) system designed to enhance the student learning experience, for real-time and post-process measurement and visualisation of deformations, strains and displacements in materials and shapes. Complements the teaching equipment.

UNSYMMETRICAL CANTILEVER

A bench mounting apparatus to allow students to investigate the deflections of unsymmetrical cantilevers.

BEAM APPARATUS

A bench mounted beam apparatus to allow students to investigate the deflections and reactions in simply supported and cantilevered beams.

EULER BUCKLING APPARATUS

Shows the various modes of buckling (elastic collapse or crippling) of slender compression members.
Ancillary

Strain Gauged Beam

A steel beam with eight half-bridge strain gauges spaced from the centre line, for the examination of strain at different points along a beam for both simply supported and cantilever experiments.

Basic Composite Beam Set - For Beam Apparatus
A set of carbon composite beams with varied construction. The different construction of each beam exhibiting differing bending/stiffness characteristics.

Cored Composite Beam Set - For Beam Apparatus
A set of carbon composite beams with cored construction. The different composition of the core of each beam exhibiting differing bending/stiffness characteristics.

Variable Stiffness Composite Beam Set - For Beam Apparatus
A set of carbon composite beams with a varied construction along their lengths. The different composition of each beam exhibiting differing bending/stiffness characteristics along its length.

Basic Composite Beam Set - For Euler Buckling Ancillary
A set of carbon composite beams with varied construction. The different construction of each beam exhibiting differing bending/stiffness characteristics.

Cored Composite Beam Set - For Euler Buckling Apparatus
A set of carbon composite beams with cored construction. The different composition of the core of each beam exhibiting differing bending/stiffness characteristics.

Variable Stiffness Composite Beam Set - For Euler Buckling Apparatus
A set of carbon composite beams with a varied construction along their lengths. The diff erent composition of each beam exhibiting differing bending/stiffness characteristics along its length.