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  Name   Descripton   Equipment  
  Photoelasticity   Equipment for experimental stress analysis. This equipment consists of 4 filters that allow the field global visualization of tensions in simple and complex pieces.    
  Critical velocities in veins machine   Critical rotation speed determination. The equipment consists of a shaft, two maces of adjustable positioning and a potentiometer.    
    Bending and torsion testing machine   Equipment for checking the bars behavior, square or circular, bending and twisting. This equipment consists of bars of square section and 2 of round section, two weight holders, 4 weights of 5 Newtons and 3 of 10 Newtons and 3 different supports.    
    Bending Moment in a Beam   Teaching equipment to analyze the bending moment variation in the section of load application in function of this same applied load.    
    Deflections of Beams & Cantilevers   Teaching equipment to characterize the behavior of a beam, evaluating its deformation in function of the material elastic characteristics and of the applied loads. This equipment consists of 3 bars of different material for study, steel, brass and aluminum.    
    Bending stress in a Beam   In this didactic equipment it is possible to carry out experiments to determine tensions in a beam due to bending. The equipment used is constituted by an inverted T-beam, with extensometers placed in the section under study. Also belongs to the equipment two digital panels. One to report the force applied (in Newton) and the other informs the stretching (in microstrain) in the section under study where the strain gauges are glued.    
    Junior Mechanisms Kit   Mechanics basic mechanism kit with 15 modules. In this kit can be studied:
- Principles of moments;
- Balance on a beam;
- Levers and pulleys;
- Reaction of forces on a beam;
- Steering wheel;
- Axis;
- Friction;
- Springs.		    
    Mass inertia with horizontal axis   Kinetic equipment, consisting of a disc with a horizontal shaft that rotates under the effect of the fall of a mass, supported by the weight carrier.    
    Mass inertia with vertical axis   Kinetic equipment, consisting of an aluminum disc, mounted on a vertical shaft that rotates under the effect of the fall of a mass, supported by the weight carrier. It is proposed, in the work performed on this equipment, the calculation of the mass moment of inertia of the rotating assembly (disc + shaft + pulley).    
    Lattice structure   Equipment consisting of several bars instrumented with extensometers. This equipment is configurable. Also used is a TQ load cell and equipment to read the elongation that exists in each bar.