Labview help for tensile compression test setup with loadcell and linear motor

[Kindly-Wisher]

Hi guys, i am a master student in mechanical engineering, i had never setup any electronic devices before, please help

i am building a single axis compression-tensile test setup, this setup consists of  NI USB-6343 X Series Data Acquisition, transducer techniques load cell(GSO series), transduces tech. signal conditioner(tmo-2), Newport linear stage(motor) and SMC 100 motor driver,

With the ability of this setup, i will drive the linear motor and make compression/tensile loads on loadcell and i will read the loadcell's output values, and also according to these values, i will continue to drive the linear stage or not !

As a summary: i need to control the Newport SMC100(motion driver) via labview , and also i need to comminucate this motion driver with the loadcell's output results via labview,

Do anyone have an "exact example setup" in LabView ? how can i do this with labview? from where should i start? What should i do? Any suggestions?

I have only 20 days to do this

Sincerely,

Best Regards..

[Kindly-Wisher]

i am building a single axis compression-tensile test setup, this setup consists of  NI USB-6343 X Series Data Acquisition, transducer techniques load cell(GSO series), transduces tech. signal conditioner(tmo-2), Newport linear stage(motor) and SMC 100 motor driver,

With the ability of this setup, i will drive the linear motor and make compression/tensile loads on loadcell and i will read the loadcell's output values, and also according to these values, i will continue to drive the linear stage or not !

As a summary: i need to control the Newport SMC100(motion driver) via labview , and also i need to comminucate this motion driver with the loadcell's output results via labview,

Do anyone have an "exact example setup" in LabView ? how can i do this with labview? from where should i start? What should i do? Any suggestions?

I have only 20 days to do this

Sincerely,

Best Regards..

[johnsold]

Kindly,

You can find examples for reading data from your load cell.  You should check to see if Newport offers any kind of LabVIEW driver for the motor or motor controller.

You will not find a program written which will convert your pile of stuff into a working tester. Do you have a comprehensive specification document which describes exactly what the final instrument should do and how all those parts need to interact to do it? Do you have a good description of what the user interface must include?  Twenty days is probably about the right amount of time to define the project.

Lynn

[Albert.Geven]

Newport has an smc100 driver. So that should be relatively easy.

But some error-wires were not connected. Especially look at the initialisation routine.

[francesbukirwa]

 Hello,

Labview help on how the hardware communicate to the software and control the machine (tensile Tester) using the software(labview program)> the proper ports to connect to the  Tensile tester and the Laptop. Sample run programs  for tensile tests and how to feed in the results for the program to run.

Frances

[johnsold]

Frances,

Please start a new thread for your question because it appears to be different from this one.

In that thread specify the manufacturer and model of the tensile tester you are using. How does it communicate with the computer? You mention ports - what kind of ports?  What software and version are you using?  What data acquisition devices or communications devices do you have? Do you have drivers for those devices installed?

This Forum is to help people learn to use NI software and hardware to work with their instruments. Generally those who participate have other jobs and do not have the time to write sample programs for you. There are many examples which come with LabVIEW.  Look at those to see if some are similar to what you want.  If you want to hire someone to write a program for you, post the requirements on the LabVIEW Job Openmings Board.

Lynn