And there's a triple bank of round metal gauges that protrude from the dash in the direction of the driver, echoing a similar setup from the 240Z.
Plastic gauges have markings on the inner cylinder down to 0.25 mm resolution, while metal gauges require use of a stick designed with the appropriate 0.25 mm markings.
The trick involves welding a metal "strain gauge", the size of a postage stamp, to the side of a rail.
One case where it is superior over dabbing is on thin metal (16 gauge / 1.6 mm).
The fibulas were potted in one-inch hex-nuts using Wood's metal, the gauge length recorded, and then each bone was tested to failure in torsion using an MTS servo-hydraulic test machine (Eden Prairie, MN) with a 20-Nm reaction torque cell at a rate of 2 degrees per second.
Such a microtransformer is an attractive alternative to both classic metal strain gauges as well as piezoresistive devices (W. Heywang, Sensorik, Springer Verlag, Berlin, 1987).
The tension and compression are measured by liquid metal strain gauges, embedded in PDMS, that are strategically placed adjacent to the nail bed, away from regions of direct finger-object contact.
There's a three-piece, metal-rimmed gauge cluster (the gauges themselves are deeply set and glow red at all times of day and night, which actually can get fatiguing); a tri-spoke, meaty steering wheel; and metallic-coated plastic trim that rings the cockpit.
We also demonstrate an all-elastomeric-platformed piezoresistive strain sensor capable of measuring higher tensile strains compared to conventional metal foil gauges, with highly linear, good cyclic electrical performance, and mechanical robustness.
This mechanism allows the films to act as strain sensors with capabilities extending up to 280% strain, which is 50 times more than conventional metal strain gauges, with high durability (10,000 cycles at 150% strain), and fast response (delay time of 14 ms).
