Photoelasticity

Author : M. M. Leven
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 494 pages
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Release : 2013-10-22
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781483158549

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Photoelasticity by M. M. Leven Pdf

Photoelasticity presents the development of photoelasticity. This book discusses the principle of optical equivalence of stressed isotropic bodies. Organized into 29 chapters, this book begins with an overview of the progress in three-dimensional photoelasticity. This text then summarizes the approximate theoretical analysis by the strain-energy technique and derives the basic equations for the evaluation of P and Q by graphical integration. Other chapters consider the importance of stress concentrations in the domain of strength of materials, particularly where fatigue is present. This book discusses a well the various instructive fractures and indicates that the strength of bakelite is determined by the maximum tensile stresses as computed by advanced methods of stress analysis. The final chapter deals with the two fundamental problems in three-dimensional photoplasticity and explains the general stress-optic law under plastic flow without unloading. This book is a valuable resource for designers as well as mechanical and civil engineers.

Author : Masataka Nisida,Kozo Kawata
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9784431680390

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Photoelasticity by Masataka Nisida,Kozo Kawata Pdf

Thirty-five papers were presented at the International Symposium on Photoelasticity, Tokyo, 1986, representing fifty-five authors. Eighteen of these papers were presented by Japanese photoelasticians and seventeen by leading foreign authorities from eleven countries (Austria, Canada, Czechoslovakia, F.R. of Germany, France, Greece, India, Switzerland, UK, USA and USSR) • This is the first symposium on photoelasticity of international scope held in Japan. The primary objectives of this symposium are to help bridge the gap between photoelastic researchers around the world, to promote mutual understanding and communications and to facilitate exchange of newly acquired knowledge in theories and techniques. In addition, it is important that these valuable results are communicated effectively to engineers who can apply them in practice in industry. The papers presented at this symposium cover all branches of photo elasticity in a broad sense, including, in addition to long estab lished photoelasticity, newly developed moire, interferometric, and holographic photoelasticity, caustics and speckle. Therefore, from an optical stress analysis pe~spective, this volume is the latest compre hensive collection of photoelastic expertises.

Author : M. M. Frocht
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-12
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781483223421

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Photoelasticity by M. M. Frocht Pdf

Photoelasticity contains the proceedings of the international symposium on photoelasticity, held at the Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois in October 1961. The book presents papers presented to an international delegation of scientists and experts in the field of photoelasticity. Its purpose is to encompass on an international scale the fundamental research activities in the areas of photoelasticity. Research and developments in the field and the basic aspects as well as significant and intricate technological applications are covered as well. The topics discussed in the compendium include the use of birefringent coatings as a means of determining the strain on the surface of opaque bodies; the two-layer technique for the photoelastic analysis of loaded plates; a method for determining two-dimensional elastoplastic stress systems in flat celluloid models; and the potentialities of the method of scattered light. Materials scientists, structural engineers, and researchers in the field of photoelasticity will find the book invaluable.

Author : K. Ramesh
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783642597237

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Digital Photoelasticity by K. Ramesh Pdf

A straightforward introduction to basic concepts and methodologies for digital photoelasticity, providing a foundation on which future researchers and students can develop their own ideas. The book thus promotes research into the formulation of problems in digital photoelasticity and the application of these techniques to industries. In one volume it provides data acquisition by DIP techniques, its analysis by statistical techniques, and its presentation by computer graphics plus the use of rapid prototyping technologies to speed up the entire process. The book not only presents the various techniques but also provides the relevant time-tested software codes. Exercises designed to support and extend the treatment are found at the end of each chapter.

Author : Hillar Aben,Claude Guillemet
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783642500718

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Photoelasticity of Glass by Hillar Aben,Claude Guillemet Pdf

Glass is the oldest man-made material. Its invention about five thousand years ago should be considered as one of the crucial events in the history of mankind. Glass has given man the possibility to have daylight in his protected living environment and to compensate the defects of his sight. Glass containers and tableware have played and still play an important role in man's everyday life. Glass elements in microscopes and telescopes have given us the possibility to learn the secrets of micro- and macrocosm. Glass participates in the most sophisticated technologies: glass fibers have caused a revolution in telecommunication, glass is used as a material for many modern electronic devices. Although nowadays plastics often make a strong competition to glass, for many applications glass is still the best material due to its specific properties - its hardness, good transparency, resistance to chemicals, the easiness to shape glass articles, feasibility to change the composition of the glass in order to meet new specific demands, etc. Two peculiarities of glass should be pointed out. The first is the fragility of glass - it breaks easily due to tensile stresses. The second is the fact that in every glass item there exist residual stresses due to the complicated technological process during which glass from the state of a viscous liquid at high temperature turns into solid state, while cooled down.

Author : R. B. Heywood
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-03
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781483151953

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Photoelasticity for Designers by R. B. Heywood Pdf

Photoelasticity for Designers covers the fundamental principles and techniques of photoelasticity, with an emphasis on its value as an aid to engineering design. This book is divided into 12 chapters, and begins with an introduction to the essential optical effects necessary for an understanding of the photoelastic phenomena. The next chapters describe the concept and features of polariscopes; the characterization of photoelastic materials; the formulation and testing of two-dimensional models of photoelasticity; and the application of model stresses to prototypes for the analysis of stresses occurring in the plane of the model, effectively of uniform thickness. These topics are followed by a discussion of the frozen stress technique and a comparison of the various materials that can be used for models in the technique. The ending chapters deal with the principles and application of the birefringent coating and distorted model techniques. This book will prove useful to photoelasticians, design engineers, and students.

Author : Pericles S. Theocaris,E.E. Gdoutos
Publisher : Springer
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783540357896

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Matrix Theory of Photoelasticity by Pericles S. Theocaris,E.E. Gdoutos Pdf

Photoelasticity as an experimental method for analyzing stress fields in mechanics was developed in the early thirties by the pioneering works of Mesnager in France and Coker and Filon in England. Almost concurrently, Föppl, Mesmer, and Oppel in Germany contributed significantly to what turned out to be an amazing development. Indeed, in the fifties and sixties a tremendous number of scientific papers and monographs appeared, all over the world, dealing with various aspects of the method and its applications in experimental stress analysis. All of these contributions were based on the so-called Neumann-Maxwell stress-opticallaw; they were developed by means of the classical methods of vector analysis and analytic geometry, using the conventionallight-vector concept. This way of treating problems of mechanics by photoelasticity indicated many shortcomings and drawbacks of this classical method, especially when three-dimensional problems of elasticity had to be treated and when complicated load and geometry situations existed. Meanwhile, the idea of using the Poincare sphere for representing any polarization profile in photoelastic applications was introduced by Robert in France and Aben in the USSR, in order to deal with problems of polarization oflight passing through aseries of optical elements (retarders andjor rotators). Although the Poincare-sphere presentation of any polarization profile con stitutes a powerful and elegant method, it exhibits the difficulty of requiring manipulations in three-dimensional space, on the surface of the unit sphere. However, other graphical methods have been developed to bypass this difficulty.

Author : A. Lagarde
Publisher : Springer
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783709126301

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Static and Dynamic Photoelasticity and Caustics by A. Lagarde Pdf

Author : William N. Sharpe, Jr.,William N. Sharpe
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 1100 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2008-12-04
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9780387268835

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Springer Handbook of Experimental Solid Mechanics by William N. Sharpe, Jr.,William N. Sharpe Pdf

The Springer Handbook of Experimental Solid Mechanics documents both the traditional techniques as well as the new methods for experimental studies of materials, components, and structures. The emergence of new materials and new disciplines, together with the escalating use of on- and off-line computers for rapid data processing and the combined use of experimental and numerical techniques have greatly expanded the capabilities of experimental mechanics. New exciting topics are included on biological materials, MEMS and NEMS, nanoindentation, digital photomechanics, photoacoustic characterization, and atomic force microscopy in experimental solid mechanics. Presenting complete instructions to various areas of experimental solid mechanics, guidance to detailed expositions in important references, and a description of state-of-the-art applications in important technical areas, this thoroughly revised and updated edition is an excellent reference to a widespread academic, industrial, and professional engineering audience.

Author : Gary L. Cloud
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1998-05-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 0521636426

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Optical Methods of Engineering Analysis by Gary L. Cloud Pdf

Fundamental measurement problems in engineering, mechanics, manufacturing, and physics are now being solved by powerful optical methods. This book presents a lucid, up-to-date discussion of these optical methods. Beginning from a firm base in modern optics, the book proceeds through relevant theory of interference and diffraction and integrates this theory with descriptions of laboratory techniques and apparatus. Among the techniques discussed are classical interferometry, photoelasticity, geometric moire, spatial filtering, moire interferometry, holography, holographic interferometry, laser speckle interferometry, and video-based speckle methods. By providing a firm base in the physical principles and at the same time allowing the reader to perform meaningful experiments related to the topic being studied, the book offers a unique user-oriented approach that will appeal to students, researchers and practising engineers.

Author : K.J Bathe
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 2524 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2003-06-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 008052947X

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Computational Fluid and Solid Mechanics 2003 by K.J Bathe Pdf

Bringing together the world's leading researchers and practitioners of computational mechanics, these new volumes meet and build on the eight key challenges for research and development in computational mechanics. Researchers have recently identified eight critical research tasks facing the field of computational mechanics. These tasks have come about because it appears possible to reach a new level of mathematical modelling and numerical solution that will lead to a much deeper understanding of nature and to great improvements in engineering design. The eight tasks are: The automatic solution of mathematical models Effective numerical schemes for fluid flows The development of an effective mesh-free numerical solution method The development of numerical procedures for multiphysics problems The development of numerical procedures for multiscale problems The modelling of uncertainties The analysis of complete life cycles of systems Education - teaching sound engineering and scientific judgement Readers of Computational Fluid and Solid Mechanics 2003 will be able to apply the combined experience of many of the world's leading researchers to their own research needs. Those in academic environments will gain a better insight into the needs and constraints of the industries they are involved with; those in industry will gain a competitive advantage by gaining insight into the cutting edge research being carried out by colleagues in academia. Features Bridges the gap between academic researchers and practitioners in industry Outlines the eight main challenges facing Research and Design in Computational mechanics and offers new insights into the shifting the research agenda Provides a vision of how strong, basic and exciting education at university can be harmonized with life-long learning to obtain maximum value from the new powerful tools of analysis

Author : William T. Moody,H. Boyd Phillips
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Photoelasticity
ISBN : UCR:31210023547555

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Photoelastic and Experimental Analog Procedures by William T. Moody,H. Boyd Phillips Pdf

Author : Rajpal Sirohi
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-03
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781420017762

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Optical Methods of Measurement by Rajpal Sirohi Pdf

Optical Methods of Measurement: Wholefield Techniques, Second Edition provides a comprehensive collection of wholefield optical measurement techniques for engineering applications. Along with the reorganization of contents, this edition includes a new chapter on optical interference, new material on nondiffracting and singular beams and their applications, and updated bibliography and additional reading sections. The book explores the propagation of laser beams, metrological applications of phase-singular beams, various detectors such as CCD and CMOS devices, and recording materials. It also covers interference, diffraction, and digital fringe pattern measurement techniques, with special emphasis on phase measurement interferometry and algorithms. The remainder of the book focuses on theory, experimental arrangements, and applications of wholefield techniques. The author discusses digital hologram interferometry, digital speckle photography, digital speckle pattern interferometry, Talbot interferometry, and holophotoelasticity. This updated book compiles the major wholefield methods of measurement in one volume. It provides a solid understanding of the techniques by describing the physics behind them. In addition, the examples given illustrate how the techniques solve measurement problems.

Author : Edwin John Hearn
Publisher : Merrow Publishing Company Limited
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Photoelasticity
ISBN : UOM:39076006503382

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Photoelasticity by Edwin John Hearn Pdf

Author : Roland Bryon Heywood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1952
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : UOM:39015002125360

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Designing by Photoelasticity by Roland Bryon Heywood Pdf