Educational Platform Based on a Mechanical Beam With Performance in Real Time

This article presents an educational platform for Mechanics of Materials based in a beam, an Arduino, a smart phone, and Matlab-Simulink with real-time performance. The platform components are given by hardware setup and software setup that these are described. Performance of the platform is assessed by means of real-time experiments using ArduinoIO package for a beam using loading configurations. The platform is easy to implement and to interface using Arduino, electronic circuits, and any computer. The platform is considered portable, reliable, and low-cost, that it can develop for students, opening many new possibilities for practical assignments in Engineering for courses of statics and Mechanics of Materials. Finally, these are included experiments and studied topics during various practices.