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Strain Gauges—Resistive and Other Principles

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The following classes of strain gauges are presented: resistive (bonded metallic SG, piezoresistive silicon and carbon nanotube—CNT), capacitive, piezoelectric, magnetoelastic, acoustic (SAW), and optical.

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Ştefănescu, D.M. (2020). Strain Gauges—Resistive and Other Principles. In: Handbook of Force Transducers. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-35322-3_5

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