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Featured Experiment Kit

T3 - Seven Bar Truss experiment

Featured

Kit - Summaries

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TechnoLab experiment kits are delivered in various modules/fittings to suit your course outline. Experiment bundles can be drawn from kits supporting the four major thematic areas below.
Click the buttons below for One-page summaries of currently available experiment kits in these areas.
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STATICS

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FLEXURE

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BUCKLING

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DYNAMICS

Kit Summaries

Experiment Kits
Currently Available

Dedicated to John Styles

Statics

This category of TechnoLab™ introductory experiment kits offers a number of choices from which a selection can be made to produce a tailored bundle to suit your institution’s needs. Experiment kits are aimed at the Basic Mechanics level of material often taught in subjects in the first year of Engineering Courses.

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This class of experiments is dedicated to John Styles (dec) - a colleague/mentor of the developer in this material 

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Experiments are continuously being refined and developed by TechnoLab™ to enhance existing experiment kits and to produce new ones.  New experiments will be identified as such in the listing below.

Statics/Materials

B4,B5 - Stiffness of close coiled helical springs in SERIES + PARALLEL
B4 - Click for more information 
B5 - Click for more information 
T4 - Foces in a redundant seven bar truss
flexure

Dedicated to Len Stevens

This Category of TechnoLab™ flexure experiment kits offers a number of choices from which a selection can be made to produce a tailored bundle to suit your institution’s needs. Experiment kits are aimed at the Basic/Intermediate Mechanics level of material that traverses subjects taught throughout all year levels of Civil, Structural and Mechanical Engineering Courses.

  

This class of experiments is dedicated to Len Stevens - a colleague/mentor of the developer in this material 

  

Experiments are continuously being refined and developed by TechnoLab™ to enhance existing experiment kits and to produce new ones.  New experiments will be identified as such in the listing below.

Flexure

F7 - Reactions and deflections of a propped cantilever beam
F9 - BM & SF in beam
P1 - Plastic behaviour of a simply supported beam and a cantilever
A1 - Stress/strain in a simply supported beam
P3 - Plastic behaviour of a single bay portal frame
F8 - Reactions and deflections of a two-span continuous beam
BP2 - Plastic behaviour of a propped cantilever
Column Buckling

Dedicated to Don Mansell

This Category of TechnoLab™ buckling  experiment kits offers a small selection for a tailored bundle to suit your institution’s needs. Material for Buckling/Instability is often taught in Mechanics subjects in the first and/or second year of Engineering Courses.

  

 

 

This class of experiments is dedicated to Don Mansell - a colleague/mentor of the developer in this material 

   

Experiments are continuously being refined and developed by TechnoLab™ to enhance existing experiment kits and to produce new ones.  “New” experiments will be identified as such in the listing below.

 

 

Column Buckling

Dynamics

Dedicated to Lewis Schmidt

This Category of TechnoLab™ structural dynamics experiment kits offers a small selection for a tailored bundle to suit your institution’s needs. Material for structural dynamics is often taught in later years of Engineering Courses.

 

 

 

This class of experiments is dedicated to Lewis Schmidt (dec) - a colleague/mentor of the developer in this material 

  

Experiments are continuously being refined and developed by TechnoLab™ to enhance existing experiment kits and to produce new ones.  “New” experiments will be identified as such in the listing below.

 

 

Dynamics

Two-storey Sway Frame

Beam Vibration on Single-Storey Frame

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