Method of and arrangement for determining loading capacity of coating elements for structures
OwnerEberhard Layherinventor
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Abstract
An arrangement and method for determining loading capacity of coating elements for structures has a pressure generating element, a force bar to be placed on the coating element to be tested, a two-armed lever with an axle supported on the force bar, one arm articulately connected with the pressure generating element, and the other arm on which a moment opposite to the moment on the one arm acts, and a free end of the other arm actuates a switching device for the pressure generating element.
Claims20
A method of determining loading capacity of coating elements, for example boards or frame panels, comprising the following steps:
- supporting a coating element to be tested at its both ends;
- placing a force bar along a central transverse line of the coating element, wherein the force bar supports a pivot axle of a two-armed lever;
- producing by one arm of the lever a moment continuously growing from zero, whereas the other arm of the lever serves for producing a fixedly adjustable counter moment corresponding to the permissible maximum loading of the coating element;
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- recording a bending of the coating element in the region of the permissible maximum loading.
An arrangement for determining loading capacity of coating elements, comprising a support having two ends spaced from one another in a predetermined direction and arranged to support ends of a coating element to be tested;
- a force bar extending transverse to said direction and arranged to press against the coating element to be tested;
- a pressure generating element;
- and a two-lever arm having a pivot axle arranged on said force bar, one arm of said lever being articulately connected with said pressure generating element so that said pressure generating element produces a moment at said arm, whereas on the other arm of said lever a further adjustable moment directed in an opposite direction to the moment generated by said pressure generating element acts;
- and switching means provided for said pressure generating element and actuated by said other arm of said lever.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.