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Multifunctional Transducers for Force and Other Non-electrical Quantities

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Multi is a prefix (like in multiphysics or multifunction) that may be associated with a variety of tasks within the area of force and its related quantities measurement. For example, UniMeasure/80 is a precision solid state instrument, a patented multipurpose, mechanical-to-electrical transducer, adaptable to an unlimited variety of measurements, including force, torque, pressure, acceleration, weight/mass, displacement/deformation, strain, flow and all the physical parameters derived from these quantities, e.g. Work or Energy, defined as Force times Distance.

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Ştefănescu, D.M. (2020). Multifunctional Transducers for Force and Other Non-electrical Quantities. In: Handbook of Force Transducers. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-35322-3_14

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