Description

The beam specimens are made from steel and are 20mm wide with a thickness of 5mm.

The supports can be used in either a fixed configuration where the clamping plate holds the beam in place, simulating a fixed support.

By removing the clamping plate, the support can be used to simulate a simple support.

The external force is applied to the beam via the load cell assembly.

The load cell assembly applies force by applying a deflection to the beam, the load cell measures the force applied to the beam to achieve that amount of deflection. An external force of up to 500N can be applied and measured by the load cell assembly.

Features & Benefits

• Assembly of a simply supported, propped cantilever or encastre beam set-up
• Supplied with 3 different beam specimens with additional spare beam kits available
• Supplied with Armfield structures software as standard

Experimental Content

• Elastic bending to plastic deformation of a mild steel beam
• Formation of plastic ‘Hinges’
• How beam fixings affect deformation of Simply Supported, Encastre and Propped Cantilever Beams
• Yield stress