Photoelasticity of Glass

1. Front Matter

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2. The Basics of Photoelasticity and Glass

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Basic Elasticity

      • Hillar Aben, Claude Guillemet

      Pages 3-17

   3. Residual Stresses in Glass

      • Hillar Aben, Claude Guillemet

      Pages 18-50

   4. Basic Photoelasticity

      • Hillar Aben, Claude Guillemet

      Pages 51-68

   5. Two-Dimensional Photoelasticity

      • Hillar Aben, Claude Guillemet

      Pages 69-78

   6. The Scattered Light Method

      • Hillar Aben, Claude Guillemet

      Pages 79-85

   7. Integrated Photoelasticity

      • Hillar Aben, Claude Guillemet

      Pages 86-101

   8. Photoelastic Properties of Glass

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      Pages 102-119

3. Stress Analysis in Flat Glass

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 121-121

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   2. Thickness Stresses

      • Hillar Aben, Claude Guillemet

      Pages 123-129

   3. Membrane Stresses

      • Hillar Aben, Claude Guillemet

      Pages 130-138

   4. Determination of the Total Stresses

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      Pages 139-161

4. Stresses in Glass Articles of Complicated Shape

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 163-163

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   2. Axisymmetric Glass Articles

      • Hillar Aben, Claude Guillemet

      Pages 165-197

   3. Containers and Other Thin-Walled Glassware

      • Hillar Aben, Claude Guillemet

      Pages 198-215

   4. Optical Fibers and Fiber Preforms

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      Pages 216-227

5. Back Matter

   Pages 229-257

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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.

• Glass Technology
• Glastechnik
• Mechanik, experimentelle
• Photoelasticity
• Photoelastizität
• basics
• ceramics
• cutting
• elasticity
• experimental mechanics
• glass
• measurement techniques
• membrane
• production
• quality

• Institute of Cybernetics, Tallinn, Estonia

  Hillar Aben

• Bois-Colombes, France

  Claude Guillemet

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