Step onto any household or commercial weighing scale, and suddenly your weight magically appears in neat digital numbers. But how does a simple platform know exactly how much you weigh down to a tenth ...

When webs of continuous paper, wire, cloth, or plastic are manufactured, the material is typically pulled off a roll, processed, and rewound in unwind, When webs of continuous paper, wire, cloth, or ...

Our old algebra teacher used to say, “You have to take what you know and use it to get what you don’t know.” That saying always reminds of us sensors that convert physical quantities into things our ...

Most load cells on the market use a cantilever outfitted with strain gages to measure loads. Such cells also need a bulky and expensive signal conditioner to make them useful. Engineers at Loadstar ...

Forty load cells are used to calculate the total mass and center of gravity of tower cranes and lifted loads during the Century City Mall project in Los Angeles. Forty 10-ton wireless compression load ...