The paper reports the effects of many thousands of pressure cycles on the performance characteristics of several types of strain gage pressure transducers.The results obtained indicate permanent changes in zero pressure output and sensitivity.Most of these changes tend to occur during the first few thousands of cycles.The equipment and procedures used to obtain the data are described.(Author).

Excerpt from "Life Cycling" Test on Several Strain Gage Pressure Transducers Sinusoidal pressure calibrators are now becoming available for the dynamic calibration of pressure transducers at frequencies up to several thousand hertz. All of these devices are designed to produce dynamic calibrations of the transducer under test with reference to a built - in Standard transducer which is subjected to-the same pressure variations. It is ap parent that in the course Of determining one frequency response character istic, both transducers may be subjected to several hundred thousand pres sure cycles. Additional dynamic calibrations will impose many more pres sure cycles on the reference transducer. If the performance of the ref erence transducer deteriorates with pressure cycling, the validity of the dynamic calibrations may be in doubt. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.