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Buckling is a phenomenon of structural instability that is generally suffered by slender structures under compression. A perturbing force acts over them and causes a failure on them before reaching the critical compressive stress.

Sci-tech Strut Buckling Apparatus Model MT 060 is an apparatus, to demonstrate the buckling of structures under compression.

Sci-tech Strut Buckling Apparatus Model MT 060 allows the student to obtain experimentally the buckling critical load of slender struts subjected to compression.

The unit allows to study the buckling of pieces of different lengths, ranging from 300 mm. to 625 mm., to which different support conditions can be applied:

– Pin-joined end conditions.

– Rigidly fixed end conditions.

– One end pinned and the other fixed.

To carry out the practical exercises correctly, it is very important to apply the force with only axial component. For that purpose, it has a differential Sci-tech Strut Buckling Apparatus Model MT 060 screw placed at one end, which allows the system compression.

To measure the compression force exerted on the structure, there is a system composed of an elastic ring whose deformation is measured.

The compression force will be directly proportional to the deformation registered in a dial gauge.