STEAM LOCOMOTIVE FRAME EXPERIMENTAL
STRESS ANALYSIS
Experimental stress analysis with strain transducers bases where
discovered by Kelvin in 1850. Wheatstone bridge was already known from 1833
(it was made by Hunter Christie) was developed by Charles Wheatstone in
1843. In Romania experimental stress analysis method for railway vehicles is
used from 1960. The first testing laboratory was in now known Romanian
Railway Authority.
Keywords: steam engine, vibrates, tensometers
Cuvinte cheie: locomotivă cu abur, frem1, tensometrie