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Wind Tunnel Balances

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Authors:
  1. Klaus Hufnagel

    1. Wind Tunnel, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany

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  • Presents a large variety of internal and external wind tunnel balances
  • Formulas are given to determine the essential parameters of a wind tunnel balance for a given specification
  • Further practical methods to optimize the instrumentation of wind tunnel balance are described

Part of the book series: Experimental Fluid Mechanics (FLUID)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxiii
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  2. Historical Review

    • Klaus Hufnagel
    Pages 1-10

  3. Basics

    • Klaus Hufnagel
    Pages 11-21

  4. Balance Types

    • Klaus Hufnagel
    Pages 23-51

  5. Model Mounting

    • Klaus Hufnagel
    Pages 53-79

  6. Specification

    • Klaus Hufnagel
    Pages 81-101

  7. Design of Balances

    • Klaus Hufnagel
    Pages 103-176

  8. Balance Material and Fabrication Methods

    • Klaus Hufnagel
    Pages 177-188

  9. Strain Measurement

    • Klaus Hufnagel
    Pages 189-222

  10. Calibration

    • Klaus Hufnagel
    Pages 223-272

  11. Utilization of Balances in the Wind Tunnel

    • Klaus Hufnagel
    Pages 273-276
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About this book

This Handbook helps to design and build any kind of force measurement equipment for the use in a wind tunnel. It is of interest to those who want to build multi-component force measurement sensors for other applications as well. The book describes the basic relations for the design and presents handbook formulas that can be used to perform a primary determination of main dimensions of a specified multi-component force sensor. This Handbook describes material and manufacturing particularities, instrumentation techniques and methods for the compensation of environmental influences. It also discusses calibration problems of multi-component force sensors and methods for the evaluation of the data. 


Authors and Affiliations

  • Wind Tunnel, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany

    Klaus Hufnagel

About the author

Dr.-Ing. Klaus Hufnagel studied Mechanical Engineering at the Technical University Darmstadt completing his degree in 1982. From 1984 to1994 he worked as a research assistant at the Institute of Aerodynamics and Measurement Techniques on the development of balances for cryogenic wind tunnels. In 1994 he achieved his Dr.-Ing. with a dissertation on this topic. From 1995 onward he was head of the wind tunnel facility of TU Darmstadt, continuing the work on wind tunnel balances, calibration machines and evaluation methods. Dr. Hufnagel retired in 2019 with almost 35 years experience in designing wind tunnel balances and calibration machines for wind tunnels all over the world.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Wind Tunnel Balances

  • Authors: Klaus Hufnagel

  • Series Title: Experimental Fluid Mechanics

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-97766-5

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-97765-8Published: 07 April 2022

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-97768-9Published: 08 April 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-97766-5Published: 06 April 2022

  • Series ISSN: 1613-222X

  • Series E-ISSN: 2197-9510

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXIII, 276

  • Number of Illustrations: 93 b/w illustrations, 110 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Engineering Fluid Dynamics

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