Strainsert, Inc.

For over six decades, Strainsert has pioneered the force sensor industry. Our patented transducer designs are made possible by innovative internal gaging process and an unsurpassed dedication to engineering and customer requirements. For a product overview description, visit our Applications section.

Today we continue to champion the industry with our technical, sales, and manufacturing teams. Our goal is to provide the most responsive, accurate, efficient force measurement solutions for research, testing, weighing, and control applications.

Further, we understand the importance of each one of our customer’s applications and hold quality manufacturing as our highest priority. Our in-house design and production allows rapid prototyping, soldering in accordance with industry standards, and design flexibility, while our NIST traceable calibration facility provides the capability for special proof/overload testing as well as a final force calibration on all products. Finally, Strainsert offers a two year warranty on all Strainsert manufactured products, twice the typical industry standard.

Our products are used continually in Aerospace, Automotive, Marine and many other industrial applications. The applications range from simple force measurement solutions up to such cutting edge products as NASA’s Mars rover expeditions, the Space Shuttle launching pad and hydrostatic or submersible vehicles used deep under the ocean’s surface.

We look forward to hearing from you and continuing to provide accurate, rugged, and dependable force transducers.

INTERNAL GAGING PROCESS:

Strainsert transducers utilize a patented internal strain gage installation process where foil strain gages are bonded and sealed inside small holes in the transducer. Along with the gages all circuitry, wires, solder joints, cements, etc. are enclosed inside the transducer metal body not to be disturbed by environment, rough installation, or years of demanding service. In addition, all transducer metals are stainless or plated alloy steel with proven corrosion resistant properties.

ACCURACY IN HARSH CONDITIONS

• All components internal to host material
• Survivable in harsh field applications
• Durable for rough installation/removal
• Wide operational temperature ranges
• Hydrostatic/submersible applications available

Strainsert Company History… The Internal Strain Gage Process

In 1960, Strainsert originated the Internal Strain Gage installation process, bonding and sealing strain gages inside small holes. These internal gagings provide robust, accurate transducers which reduce sensitivity to unwanted bending, torsion and other extraneous loading conditions common in force measurement applications. These self protecting, rugged internal gagings are routinely installed in diameters as small as 0.125 inches.

Strainsert’s first internal gaging application to accurately measure bolt and stud loads, took these products from the confines of laboratories, where they have been externally gaged delicate items, out to rough industrial applications with routine success.

Flat load cells® and fatigue rated flat load cells, with similar internal gaging demonstrated not only superior ruggedness and stay-on-the-job capabilities, but also that they were insensitive to barometric and hydrostatic pressures.

Internally gaged load pins, clevis bolts, axles and shear pins also proved to be stay-on-the-job durable, providing a new concept in force transducer design and force measurement.

Today we continue to champion the industry with our knowledgeable and dedicated technical, sales, and manufacturing teams. Our goal is to provide the most responsive, accurate and efficient force measurement solutions for research, testing, weighing, and control applications. We achieve this by our innovative internal gauging techniques and an unsurpassed dedication to engineering and customer requirements.

More than forty five years later, we continue to look forward to discussing your applications and continuing to provide accurate, rugged, and dependable force transducers.