How can I measure thickness?

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Hello all,

How can I measure the thickness of a sheet made up of any material and apply the same mechanism to measure the thickness of a hollow container

Is there something that would work for any material? but in real life would want to measure thickness of metal and non metal primarily plastic, copper, mud/clay sheets. These 3 primarily.

Is there a way to make it portable? Only software or mobile based?

Don't know what can I use to measure thickness?

Thanks

2

Maybe some kind of capacitance sensor.

You would have to calibrate to the material being measured.

Looks like there are lots of hits on Google to start your research from.

3

Google is you friend! Search for "thickness gauge" and look at the images.

Paul

4

You can easily interface an Arduino to one of the cheap digital calipers:

How well suited calipers are to measuring the thickness of a container would depend on the shape of the container.

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Mechanical measurement, such as those digital calipers, is the only way that would work for any solid material.

Other solutions could include ultrasound, capacitive, conductive, or even other methods - those all depend on the material measured whether they work in the first place, and require calibration for each different material.