Development of 3-component force-moment balance for low speed water tunnel

• Main Authors: Lee, Chi Seng, Lewpiriyawong, Nuttawut, Srigrarom, Sutthiphong, Nguyen, Nam-Trung
• Other Authors: School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Mechanical engineering
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/79640; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/7853
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

An effort is made to develop a new 3-component force-moment balance, which is capable of measuring lift force, drag force and pitching moment of a model mounted in the water tunnel. The concept used in the balance design is the bending- beam principle. The forces acting on the spring element cause s...