Process and apparatus for testing structures and constructions of great dimensions, especially metallic structures, on a model

Abstract

Abstract 1. Method for the study on models of the elastic deformations of large structures, works and buildings under load, the method consisting of : building the model in the form of a plurality of separate sections, each model section being built in the form of an individual rigid component substantially free of elasticity, assembling the model sections together to reproduce the complete structure to be studied, assembling each section with the neighboring sections by load measuring elastic link components of determined flexibility localizing the elastic deformations of the whole model at assembly points, measuring the amplitude of the local deformations of each of the said link components when the model is being subjected to determined stresses, and cumulating these measurements to deduce the overall deformations to which the model has been subjected and, consequently, the deformations to which the real structure will undergo under equivalent stress conditions.

Inventors

• 👤 Pierre-Loic Erick Le Guet

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