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This chapter introduces the basic principles and methods of force measurement according to a classification into a dozen of force transducers types: resistive (especially strain gauges), inductive, capacitive, piezoelectric, electromagnetic, electrodynamic, magnetoelastic, galvanomagnetic (Hall-effect), vibrating wires, (micro)resonators, acoustic and gyroscopic. For each of them, the measuring range is indicated in brackets at each subsequent subtitle.
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Ştefănescu, D.M. (2020). General Classification of the Electrical Methods and Principles for Measuring Mechanical Quantities. In: Handbook of Force Transducers. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-35322-3_3
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