Rebar Stress Meter

Match the meter’s rebar diameter and grade to the design spec of the structure. Kingmach covers 12 mm through 40 mm diameters and can produce intermediate sizes. If your bars run larger, we weld the sensor onto a short stub of matching diameter that threads or laps into the existing cage.

Standard vibrating wire meters deliver resolution better than 0.025% F.S. with long-term stability of less than 0.5% drift per year. Temperature compensation is embedded, and the calibration sheet gives the exact sensitivity factor for your unit.

Yes. The electronics are potted and the housing is sealed to IP68. A steel guard tube protects the sensing section, and the cable is armored. Installers can tie the meter directly to the rebar cage and proceed with normal concrete placement and vibration.

We frequently adjust cable exits and lengths. Standard is 1 m of heavy-duty shielded cable, but we go up to hundreds of meters for remote readings. We can terminate with bare leads, military connectors, or pigtails to match your data logger interface.

Every meter includes a thermistor. Use the supplied temperature coefficient to correct the strain reading in your data reduction software. For projects with large temperature swings, we can supply sensors with matched thermal expansion coefficients to reduce correction work.