The Western Regional Strain Gage Committee

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Western Regional Strain Gage Committee - Updated May 2013

The WRSGC held two Test and Measurement conferences in 2012.  The winter  conference was held February 20-22 in San Diego, California at the Courtyard San Diego Downtown.  The program included the Executive Board meeting, Chairman Welcome, Host Welcome, five technical papers, sponsor’s seminar, general business meeting and workshop covering hostile environments and general questions from the committee.  The attendees were provided a tour of the University of California San Diego Structural Test Lab in La Jolla.  The Arrangements and Program Chairman was Chris Gibson.

Winter Test and Measurement Conference Program

Day 1

Executive Board Meeting

Day 2

Chairman Welcome

Jeff Stubbs – Northrop Grumman

Host Welcome

Chris Gibson – VTI Instruments

A Study on the Calibration of Multi-Piece Transducers

              Jason Christopherson - MTS

Update on IEEE 1451.4 TEDS Standards

David Potter, National Instruments

Data Channel Health Assessment Software

             David Wilkes, ATK Thiokol

Discussion of Strain Gage Certification for USA (BSSM)

              Chris Gibson, VTI Instruments

Day 3

Sponsor’s Seminar

Hostile Environments Workshop           

              Moderator – Vince Wnuk, HPI

General Business Meeting

PMS – Pressure Gage for High Transient Measurements

Bernd Gunther, HBM

Tour: UCSD Structural Test Lab

The Summer conference was held September 17-19 in Bloomington, Minnesota at the Doubletree by Hilton Bloomington.  The program included the Executive Board meeting, Chairman Welcome, Host Welcome, eight technical papers, sponsor’s seminar, general business meeting and workshop covering hostile environments and general questions from the committee.  The attendees were provided a tour of MTS Systems Corporation in Eden Prairie.  The Arrangements and Program Chairman was Jason Christopherson.

Summer Test and Measurement Conference Program

Day 1

Executive Board Meeting

Day 2

Chairman Welcome

Jeff Stubbs – Northrop Grumman

Host Welcome

Jason Christopherson – MTS

Long Term Monitoring of the I-35W St. Anthony falls Bridge

]             Brock Hedegaard – University of Minnesota

Shear Distribution in Prestressed Concrete Girder Bridges

Ben Dymond – University of Minnesota

A View Across the Pond – VDI/VDE2635 European ESA Strain Gage Specifications

Bernd Gunther, HBM

General Strain Gage Usage in Full Scale Structural Test

              William Calderwood – NAIR

Jet Engine Fan Blade Test Control and Compensation Techniques

              Mike Moen – MTS

FOS Monitoring System Case Study of a Clipper Turbine at University of Minnesota

              Tom Graver – Micron Optics

Methods and Practices for Reliable Thermal Compensation of Field Deployed FPG Strain Sensors

              Todd Haber – Micron Optics

Hostile Environments Workshop           

              Moderator – Vince Wnuk, HPI

Day 3

General Business Meeting

Sponsor’s Seminar

Large Scale Parallel Path Torque Measurements

Jason Christopherson – MTS

Tour: MTS Systems Corporation

Brian A. Donnelly

Chairman, WRSGC

March 22, 2013