Split Hopkinson Pressure Bar - Video #78286

Split Hopkinson Pressure Bar

Penn State Altoona electro-mechanical engineering students Griffen Josephs and Austin Rabits present their work on the Split Hopkinson Pressure bar, a machine that measures the stress from the incident and the transmitted bar after a striker hits, then compressing the subject material that is held between them enacting a force. This force is collected on the strain gauges and sent to the oscilloscope via a Wheatstone bridge setup.