Simultaneous stress separation,smoothing of measured thermoelastic isopachic information and enhanced boundary data

A new thermoelastic hybrid method of stress analysis is demonstrated experimentally which simultaneously smooths the measured isopachic data, enhances the boundary information, and separates the stresses at nonboundary locations using only the isopachics. The technique is illustrated by application to a tensile plate containing a hole.     

Determining reliable edge isopachic data from interior thermoelastic measurements

The maximum stresses in a plane-stressed component typically occur on the boundary. However, it is generally difficult to obtain reliable experimental data at an edge and thermoelastic stress analysis is no exception. The inability to measure reliable edge isopachic stresses has caused many previous thermoelastic stress analyses to be more qualitative than quantitative. This paper develops and implements an effective iterative least-squares method for calculating reliable edge isopachic stresses from measured interior values. The method is based upon the plane-stress isotropic compatibility equation. A regularization scheme is employed to minimize the sensitivity to measurement error and to improve the stability of the algorithm by controlling the rate of convergence. An illustrative example with actual measured thermoelastic data is included. The processes thermoelastically determined results compare well with those obtained using strain gages.Paper was presented at the 1994 SEM Spring Conference held in Baltimore, MD on June 6–8.     

A new method of resolving transient stresses in dynamic holophotoelasticity

A method which allows the simultaneous separation of the isochromatic and isopachic fringes for transient plane-stress problems is presented. A double pulsed ruby laser and a terbium glass Faraday rotator is employed to resolve the transient isochromatic and isopachic patterns. Separated fringe patterns for a structural component are recorded at nine different instants after impact loading. The dynamic material-fringe values of isochromatics and isopachics are obtained within the experiment. Finally, dynamic stresses distributed along a section at different time intervals are resolved.     

全息动光弹性旋光法研究

本文提出了一个在全息动光弹性瞬态平面应力问题中同时获得分离的等差线及等和线条纹并分解平面瞬态应力的方法。文中给出了框架在冲击荷载作用下不同时刻等差线及等和线的分离条纹图和某个截面不同时刻的动态应力分布。     

Stress separation of thermoelastically measured isopachics

Knowledge of individual stresses is necessary for the quantitative evaluation of engineering components. A finite element type scheme is described for accurately and efficiently separating measured isopachic data into individual in-plane stress components. Although the governing equations require complete boundary conditions to be well posed, illustrative examples demonstrate the method's ability to provide accurate individual stresses throughout a member using incomplete boundary conditions.     

Thermoelastic Determination of Individual Stresses in Vicinity of a Near-Edge Hole Beneath a Concentrated Load

Thermoelastic data are combined with an Airy stress function to determine the individual stresses on and near the boundary of a circular hole which is located below a concentrated edge-load in a plate. Coefficients of the stress function are evaluated from the measured temperatures and the local traction-free conditions are satisfied by imposing s_rr = t_rq = 0 {\sigma_{r{\rm{r}}}} = {\tau_{r\theta }} = 0 analytically on the edge of the hole. The latter has the advantage of reducing the number of coefficients in the stress function series. The method simultaneously smoothes the measured input data, satisfies the local boundary conditions and evaluates individual stresses on, and in the neighbourhood of, the edge of the hole. Attention is paid to how many coefficients to retain in the stress function series. Although the presence of high stress concentration factors, together with a hole-diameter-to-plate-thickness ratio of only two, result in some three-dimensional effects, these are relatively small and the agreement between the thermoelastic values, those from recorded strains and FEM-predicted surface stresses is good.     

A study of the dynamic nolophotoelasticity light rotation method

A method which allows simultaneously separating the isochromatia and isopachic fringes for transient plane-stress problems is presented. A set of double pulsed ruby laser and a terbium glass Faraday rotator are used. The double-order timing methods applied in the synchronous system of the impact load and trigger cine jit. Separated fringe patterns of a structure component are recorded a nine different instants after impact loading, and the dynamic material-fringe values of isochromatics and isopachics are obtained by experiment. Finally, dynamic stresses distributed along a section at different instants are resolved.     

Orthotropic semi-infinite medium with a crack under thermal shock

A cracked orthotropic semi-infinite plate under thermal shock is investigated. The thermal stresses are generated due to sudden cooling of the boundary by ramp function temperature change. The superposition technique is used to solve the problem. The crack problem is formulated by applying the thermal stresses obtained from the uncracked plate with opposite sign to be the only external loads on the crack surfaces as the crack surface tractions. The Fourier transform technique is used to solve the problem leading to a singular equation of the Cauchy type. The singular integral equation is solved numerically using the expansion method. The influence of the material orthotropy on the stress intensity factors is shown by comparing the results obtained for different orthotropic materials and isotropic materials in the case of plane stress. The numerical results of the stress intensity factors are demonstrated as a function of time, crack length, location of the crack and the duration of the cooling rate.     

Phase-Multiplied Photoelastic and Series Interferometer Arrangement for Full-Field Stress Measurement in Single Crystals

A compact, phase-multiplied, circular polariscope and series interferometer arrangement is developed for high-resolution, full-field stress measurement in single crystals with weak piezo-optical coefficients. We present a general stress-optic law, derived from anisotropic piezo-optical constitutive relations, which provides the theoretical framework for obtaining stress field components from measured optical isoclinic, isochromatic and isopachic phase maps. A new phase image processing technique is also developed, which combines data obtained from different interference configurations for the successful removal of low-modulation zones within isoclinic and isopachic phase maps. The validity and accuracy of the proposed interferometer arrangement and stress measurement methodology are demonstrated through a compression test of a c-cut single crystal sapphire plate loaded by a cylindrical indenter.     

SOME IDENTITY RELATIONS BETWEEN PLANE PROBLEMS FOR VISCO-AND ELASTICITY

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Determining Individual Stresses Throughout a Pinned Aluminum Joint by Reflective Photoelasticity

Pinned (bolted) joints are an extremely important, but difficult to analyze, structural or mechanical element. They are a class of inverse problems in which the stresses at the pin/hole interface are typically unknown. Moreover, stresses vary non-linearly with applied load. Failures of mechanical or structural systems frequently initiate at connections. Although almost always present, many stress analyses of such mechanical connections ignore friction for simplicity. The stresses are evaluated here in an aluminum connector using a series solution of an Airy stress function, the coefficients being evaluated from known boundary tractions (near, but not including the contact region on the hole) and photoelastically measured data obtained from a bonded birefringent coating. Both friction and pin/hole clearance are accounted for, and individual stresses are evaluated full-field, including on the contact boundary of the hole.     

四光束载波全息光弹性法的研究及应用

本文同时利用一台激光器的相干性和两台无位相联系的激光器间的非相干特性,提出了一种新的全息光弹性法,并用于等和线的测量上.该方法具有载波频率连续可调,一次曝光给出某一载荷下的等和载波条纹图的优点;通过滤波解调,能方便地给出模型受力过程中任意两个载荷下的差载等和线,为不能重复性实验(如裂纹扩展)提供了新的实验研究方法。     

Effects of SH waves in a functionally graded plate

A computational method is presented to investigate SH waves in functionally graded material (FGM) plates. The FGM plate is first divided into quadratic layer elements (QLEs), in which the material properties are assumed as a quadratic function in the thickness direction. A general solution for the equation of motion governing the QLE has been derived. The general solution is then used together with the boundary and continuity conditions to obtain the displacement and stress in the wave number domain for an arbitrary FGM plate. The displacements and stresses in the frequency domain and time domain are obtained using inverse Fourier integration. Furthermore, a simple integral technique is also proposed for evaluating modified Bessel functions with complex valued order. Numerical examples are presented to demonstrate this numerical technique for SH waves propagating in FGM plates.     

ELASTIC CALCULATION OF STRESSES IN RINGS USING AIRY STRESS FUNCTION

Stress calculation formulae for a ring have been obtained by using Airy stress function of the plane strain field with the decomposition of the solutions for normal stresses of Airy biharmonic equation into two parts when it is loaded under two opposite inside forces along a diameter. One part should fulfill a constraint condition about normal stress distribution along the circumference at an energy valley to do the minimum work. Other part is a stress residue constant. In order to verify these formulae and the computed results, the computed contour lines of equi-maximal shear stresses were plotted and quite compared with that of photo-elasticity test results. This constraint condition about normal stress distribution along circumference is confirmed by using Greens’ theorem. An additional compression exists along the circumference of the loaded ring, explaining the divorcement and displacement of singularity points at inner and outer boundaries.     

On displacement methods in planar anisotropic elasticity

Two displacement formulation methods are presented for problems of planar anisotropic elasticity. The first displacement method is based on solving the two governing partial differential equations simultaneously/ This method is a recapitulation of the orignal work of Eshelby, Read and Shockley [7] on generalized plane deformations of anisotropic elastic materials in the context of planar anisotropic elasticity.The second displacement method is based on solving the two governing equations separately. This formulation introduces a displacement function, which satisfies a fourth-order partial differential equation that is identical in the form to the one given by Lekhnitskii [6] for monoclinic materials using a stress function. Moreover, this method parallels the traditional Airy stress function method and thus the Lekhnitskii method for pure plane problems. Both the new approach and the Airy stress function method start with the equilibrium equations and use the same extended version of Green's theorem (Chou and Pagano [13], p. 114; Gao [11]) to derive the expressions for stress or displacement components in terms of a potential (stress or displacement) function (see also Gao [10, 11]). It is therefore anticipated that the displacement function involved in this new method could also be evaluated from measured data, as was done by Lin and Rowlands [17] to determine the Airy stress function experimentally.The two different displacement methods lead to two general solutions for problems of planar anisotropic elasticity. Although the two solutions differ in expressions, both of the depend on the complex roots of the same characteristic equation. Furthermore, this characteristic equation is identical to that obtained by Lekhnitskii [6] using a stress formulation. It is therefore concluded that the two displacement methods and Lekhnitskii's stress method are all equivalent for problems of planar anisotropic elasticity (see Gao and Rowlands [8] for detailed discussions).     

Linear and Nonlinear Algorithms for Stress Separation in Photoelasticity

An experimental-numerical hybrid method for the stress separation in photoelasticity is proposed in this study. In the proposed method, boundary conditions for a local finite element model, that is, tractions along boundaries are inversely determined from photoelastic fringes. Two algorithms are proposed for determining the boundary condition. One is a linear algorithm in which the tractions are obtained by the method of linear least-squares from both principal stress difference and principal direction. Another is the nonlinear algorithm in which the tractions are determined only from the principal stress difference. After determining the boundary conditions for the local finite element model, the stresses can be obtained by finite element direct analysis. The effectiveness is demonstrated by applying the proposed method to a perforated plate under tension and contact problems. Results show that the boundary conditions of the local finite element model can be determined from the photoelastic fringes and then the individual stresses can be obtained by the proposed method. Furthermore, the stresses can be evaluated even if the boundary condition is complicated such as at the contact surface. It is expected that the proposed method can be powerful tool for stress analysis.     

混合光载波法分离动静态主应力

本文将等差载波位相调制原理与夹层全息术结合形成的混合光载波法,可同时获得等差载波条纹图与混合载波条纹图.对混合载波纹图进行光学付里叶变换,利用空间滤波技术可将等和载波条纹从中分离出来.利用图象处理技术实现了对两种载波条纹图从预处理到应力计算的自动化处理.将混合光载波法应用于动态全息光弹性,分离了动态主应力. 文中还提出了一个经济实用的大尺寸载波片制作技术.     

Analytical solutions for single- and multi-span functionally graded plates in cylindrical bending

A recently developed plate theory using the concept of shape function of the transverse coordinate parameter is extended to determine the stress distribution in an orthotropic functionally graded plate subjected to cylindrical bending. The transfer matrix method is presented to derive the shape function. The equations governing the plate deformation are then solved analytically using the transfer matrix method for arbitrary boundary conditions. For a simply supported functionally graded plate, a comparison of the present solution with the exact elasticity solution, the first- and third-order shear deformation plate theories is presented and discussed. It is demonstrated that the present method yields more accurate stresses than the first- and third-order shear deformation theories. The effect of boundary conditions and inhomogeneity of material on the displacements and stresses in functionally graded plates are investigated. A multi-span functionally graded plate with arbitrary boundary conditions is further considered to demonstrate the efficiency of the present method.     

Full-field isopachic generation in photoelastic coatings

A method has been developed for the generation of isopachic fringes in photoelastic coatings. This method requires that the front (outer) surface of the coating be deposited with a thin metallic film to increase the front-surface reflellctivity. The light which penetrotes the photoelastic coating reflects from the rear surface, emerges from the front surface and then combines with the frontsurface reflection to yield a system of “carrier” fringes. When the model is loaded, the carrier-fringer system is modulated by the principal-strain sums and the principalstrain differences. Superposition of the modulate carrierfringer system with the original one (by double exposure or by superposition) yields isopachic and isochromatic fringes. The isochromatics can be suppressed by proper selection of the photoelastic material to yield only isopachics for the unambiguous determination of principal-strain sums over the full field.