gauge length References gauge length Ask Anything Homework Help Written by The Information Architects of Encyclopaedia Britannica The Information Architects maintain a master list of the topics included in the corpus of Encyclopædia Britannica, and create and manage the relationships between them. The Information Architects of Encyclopaedia Britannica Britannica AI Ask Anything Learn about this topic in these articles: materials testing/ Static tension and compression tests…the test section (called the gauge length) is measured at different loads with a device called an extensometer; these measurements are used to compute strain. Read More…the test section (called the gauge length) is measured at different loads with a device called an extensometer; these measurements are used to compute strain. Read More