Can you really get a Styrofoam wing to flex?
You probably wouldn’t make aircraft wings out of Styrofoam for anything more complicated than an RC plane. But one demo seemed to be getting strain data as the wings on a Styrofoam plane flexed back and forth. The secret was a metal strip mounted under each of the wings. The metal strip contained four strain gauges which were monitored with an NI PXI test system. The software doing the structural analysis is called Test Slate, from Jacobs Technology Inc. in Tennessee.
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