An innovative approach to visualization of stress

Author

Szaroletta, William K. ; Anderson, John C.

Author_Institution

Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN, USA

Volume

1

fYear

2001

fDate

6/23/1905 12:00:00 AM

Abstract

This paper describes the development of a tool to help students easily visualize stresses in truss structures through photoelastic visualization of quickly assembled truss structures. Clear polymer structural members of varying lengths were designed with the capability to be connected to form a variety of simple truss structures. This development effort was conducted across functional areas in a mechanical engineering technology department. Eventually, a fully developed mechanical toolkit will be used in conjunction with computational and numerical tools in the study of stress, strain, and strength analysis as well as offering a platform to teach instrumentation techniques in experimental stress analysis

Keywords

engineering education; mechanical engineering; photoelasticity; rapid prototyping (industrial); stress-strain relations; clear polymer structural members; experimental stress analysis; instrumentation techniques; mechanical engineering students; mechanical toolkit; photoelastic visualization; stress visualisation approach; truss structures; Assembly; Couplings; Geometry; Manufacturing; Photoelasticity; Polymers; Prototypes; Stress; Testing; Visualization;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Frontiers in Education Conference, 2001. 31st Annual

ISSN

0190-5848

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6669-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/FIE.2001.963912

Filename

963912