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Strain gauges

In the Oil and Gas industry we have assessed the most frequent uses for measuring   physical properties such as strain, stress, load, pressure and torque by using strain gauges.The…

Load Measuring Shackles

In the Oil and Gas industry we are often required to measure tensile loads in chains, ropes or on the ends of hooks, lifting, towing and mooring applications. One way…

Compressive Load Cell FEA

Active Load have just supplied a set of load cells for a high capacity thrust bearing. The load cell had to be investigated using finite element analysis as the load…

Load Display

Active Load  have just supplied a couple of load pins complete with local load indicators. The indicators were to display the load seen by the pin and to have an…

Load Pin with AMP

Active Load  have just supplied  2 load pins for a special marine application that needed the strain gauges to be bonded on external surfaces to determine the exact direction of…