what is the difference between strain gages and strain gauges?

[imarire]

now i m working load cell and pressure sensors and i dont make difference between strain gages and strain gauges may you give me some help?

[Sissa]

Hello samsam,

You have many documents over the web explaining strain gages and strain gauges. Let's look at:

http://www.omega.com/literature/transactions/volume3/strain.html

and please refer to the following tutorials. They will help you get started with your strain and load measurements.


Load Cells:
http://zone.ni.com/devzone/conceptd.nsf/ webmain/ F9DB4E5835A63D2086256D740064E8F0?opendoc ument


Strain Gauges:
http://zone.ni.com/devzone/conceptd.nsf/ webmain/ 2D5849B3108E416B86256DA2007A8E7B?opendoc ument


Or you can search the development library for tutorials and example code:
http://zone.ni.com/devzone/devzone.nsf/ 6ae7945502d89dea0625685500506e1f/ 4d58b1b80ec41ef70625683f006e1d6d?OpenDoc ument


I hope this helps. Please respond if I ca
n help with more specific questions.


Salissou I.
Applications Engineer
National Instruments

[Molly K]

The only difference between "Strain Gauge" and "Strain Gage" that I know of is the spelling. It is similar to the color grey/gray.
There are many types of strain gages/gauges that have different characteristics and the documents referenced in the other answer point out some of these details.
-Molly K-

[smsmsmsm]

American English use the word gage.
British English is gauge.
Except this , both gage and gauge mean the same.

[Guy Ferraro]

The difference between strain gages and strain gauges is the same difference between color(American) and colour (British); "u"