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Sensor Selection

sensitive to temperature change, material properties of your structure, and the
adhesive used. Instrumenting a structure with strain gauges is very much an art and
difficult to do. They also require strain gauge amplifiers which are also difficult to work
with. That being said, strain gauges are cost effective (from a material point-of-view, not
labor), and allow the engineer to directly measure the strain in his/her structure.

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