• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.19 no.3
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• pp.200-206
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• 1999

This paper describes the stress analysis of a curved beam by using photoelasticity. In order to measure accurate isochromatic fringe orders at certain locations. fringes are doubled and sharpened by digital image processing. After fringe multiplication and sharpening. fringe orders can be read as a quarter order interval (N=0, 1/4, 2/4, 3/4,...). The results obtained from photoelastic experiment are compared with those calculated by using theory. Two results are agreed well even though there are some scatter bands with maximum 8 percent for the results of photoelastic measurements and theoretical calculation. Difference may be occurred due to the slight misalignment of the direction to which axial load is applied in photoelastic experiment. It is confirmed that accurate measurement of stress distribution can be possible by using the techniques of fringe multiplication and sharpening in photoelasticity.

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.33 no.5
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• pp.1947-1955
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• 2013

The purpose of this paper is to present an photoelasticity technique for measuring the displacement and stress distribution in particle assembly subjected to shallow foundation loading. Photoelastic measurement technique was employed to visualize the force transmission of a particle assembly. A model assembly bounded by a steel frame was built by stacking bi-dimensional circular particles made of polycarbonate elastomer. Each particle was coated by a thin photoelastic sheet so that the force transmission represented by bright light stripes can be visualized. In a contacted particle, both magnitude and orientation of principal stress difference can also be measured via the photoelasticity technique. The different distributions of the contact stresses at the initial loading and near the failure were quantitatively compared. The photoelastic patterns and displacement fields observed in the pre-failure state disappears immediately after the buckling of confined force chains.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.24 no.1
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• pp.38-44
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• 2004

An experimental study for a crane hook was performed to investigate the stress distribution along a certain line where the maximum and minimum stresses to be developed. On this line, the isoclinic fringe and/or principal stress direction is constant. The crane hook was modeled into a 2-dimensional plate made of urethane rubber called 'Photoflex' The Photoflex is very sensitive to a load and has low photoelastic fringe constant. The Tardy compensation method with the fringe sharpening process and the 4-step phase shifting method, was used for the photoelastic technique. Experimental results by photoelasticity were compared with the calculated stresses from the simple curved beam theory and tile finite element analysis. Ail the results were close to each other.

• Journal of the KSME
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• v.31 no.3
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• pp.276-292
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• 1991

복합체 구조물을 광탄성 실험법으로 응력해석 하고자 할 때는 반드시 아래의 사항이 연구되어야 한다. (1) 복합체 구조물의 이방성 성질과 상사되는 광탄성 재료가 개발되어야 한다. (2) 광탄성 재료의 기본 물성치($E_L,E_r,G_{LT},V_{LT}$)와 응력 프린지치($f_L,f_r,f_{LT}$) 등이 측정되어야 한다. (3) 복합체 구조물의 응력 해석을 할 수 있는 광탄성 실험의 실험 방법이 개 발되어야 한다. 이론적으로 규명하기 힘들고 역학적으로 논란되고 있거나 인명에 관계되는 기 계나 구조물 등을 이론적으로 해결하였으나 실험적으로 확인하려고 할 때 광탄성 실험법은 확인 실험법으로써 매우 유용한 방법이므로 아래와 같이 요구된다. 광탄성 실험법이 앞에서 나열된 것처럼 파괴 역학의 여러 분야에도 유용하게 이용될 뿐만 아니라 의학 분야에도 매우 유용하게 이용되고 있다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2004.05a
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• pp.178-178
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• 2004

본 연구에서는 폴리카보나이트의 재료로 만들어진 인장시편과 원형시편을 다목적 광탄성 측정기를 사용하여 프린지 차수를 측정한 후 프린지 상수를 도출하였다. 특히, 새로 개발된 다목적 광탄성기를 이용하여 지랫대 형식으로 프린지 차수를 측정하였고, 시편에 직접 응력을 가하는 방식의 직접(DIRECT) 실험법으로 프린지 차수를 측정하였다. 위와 같은 방식은 나타난 결과를 가지고 프린지 상수를 서로 비교할 수 있다는 장점이 있어 다목적 광탄성기에 대한 신뢰도를 얻을 수 있다 아울러 광탄성 4단계 위상 이동법에서는 주응력 방향, 즉 등경선이 일정한 선상에서는 연속적인 응력분포를 얻을 수 있다.(중략)

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.26 no.5
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• pp.329-335
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• 2006

It is necessary to study on the stress concentration experimentally, which is the main reason to avoid mechanical dilapidation and failure, when designing a mechanical structure. Stress concentration factor of a specimen of cantilever beam with a circular hole in the center was measured using both strain gage and photoelastic methods in this paper. In strain-gage measurement, three strain gages along the line near a hole of the specimen were installed and maximum strain was extrapolated from three measurements. In photoelastic measurement, two methods were employed. First, the Babinet-Soleil compensation method was used to measure the maximum strain. Secondly, photoelastic 4-step phase shilling method was applied to observe the strain distribution around the hole. Measurements obtained by different experiments were comparable within the range of experimental error.

• Asia-pacific Journal of Multimedia Services Convergent with Art, Humanities, and Sociology
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• v.5 no.2
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• pp.215-222
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• 2015

This paper presents the measurement of stress intensity factors of inclined cracks by use of photoelasticity. The distributions of isochromatics near a crack tip of the specimen loaded by uniaxially tensile load are used for analysis. Accuracy and reliability is enhanced by twice multiplying and sharpening the measured isochromatics using digital image processing. Photoelastic results are compared with those obtained by finite element method. Good agreement between them shows that the photoelastic analysis is reliable.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.32 no.1
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• pp.27-33
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• 2012

Photoelasticity is a technique of experimental methods and has been widely used in various domains of engineering to determine the stress distribution of structures. Without complicated mathematical formulation, this technique can conveniently provide a fairly accurate whole-field stress analysis for a mechanical structure. Here, stress distribution around an inclined crack tip of finite-width plate is studied by 8-step phase-shifting method. This method is a kind of photoelastic phase-shifting techniques and can be used for the determination of the phase values of isochromatics and isoclinics. According to stress-optic law, the stress distribution could be obtained from fringe patterns. The results obtained by polariscope arrangement combined with 8-step method and ABAQUS FEM simulations are compared with each other. Good agreement between them shows that 8-step phase-shifting method is reliable and can be used for determination of stress by experiment.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.34 no.2
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• pp.148-154
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• 2014

Photoelasticity is a useful technique for obtaining the differences and directions of principal stresses in a model. In conventional photoelasticity, the photoelastic parameters are measured manually point by point. Identifying and measuring photoelastic data is time-consuming and requires skill. The fringe phase shifting method was recently developed and has been found to be convenient for measuring and analyzing fringe data in photo-mechanics. This paper presents an experimental study on the stress distribution along a horizontal line that passes the central point of a rhombus plate made of Photoflex (i.e., type of urethane rubber). The isoclinic fringe and/or principal stress direction is constant on this horizontal line, so a four-bucket phase shifting method can be applied. The method requires four photoelastic fringes that are obtained from a circular polariscope by rotating the analyzer at $0^{\circ}C$, $45^{\circ}C$, $90^{\circ}C$ and $135^{\circ}C$. Experimental measurements using the method were quantitatively compared with the results from FEM analysis; the results from the two methods showed comparable agreement.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2011.01a
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• pp.111-112
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• 2011

본 연구에서는 광전 용적맥파(photoelectric plethysmography, PPG)를 기반으로 이를 이용하여 혈관 탄성도를 측정 할 수 있는 시스템에 관하여 연구하였다. 광전 용적맥파는 광을 이용한 비 침습적 맥파 측정 방식으로 손가락 끝 부분에서 측정하고 혈액 내에 헤모글로빈의 빛에 대한 광 흡수도의 차이로 인해 나타나게 된다. 얻어진 신호를 2차 미분 하게 되면 가속도 맥파 (acceleration photoplethymogram, APG)를 얻을 수 있고 이는 혈관 탄성도의 추정에 응용가능하다. 본 연구에서는 혈관 탄성도를 측정하기 위한 방법으로 광전 용적맥파를 적용하여 가속도 맥파 측정기기를 설계하고, 이를 바탕으로 혈관 탄성도 추정에 적용 가능 여부를 연구하였다.