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IX.—On the Measurement of Stress by Thermal Methods, with an Account of some Experiments on the Influence of Stress on the Thermal Expansion of Metals

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 July 2012

E. G. Coker
E. G. Coker
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Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering, M'Gill University, Montreal
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In the determination of the effects of stress upon different materials, the investigator has several methods of attack open to him, each of which has its own particular advantages. In the great majority of cases the material under investigation obeys the generalised Hooke's law, and the effects of a stress are therefore most easily followed and measured by observations of the strains produced. The strains being usually exceedingly minute, it is necessary to magnify them sufficiently to allow of accurate measurement. To this end many instruments have been devised for measuring the strains obtained by the action of different stresses, and in fact the great majority of our experimental knowledge has been obtained in this way. The application of polarised light to the determination of stress was first suggested by Brewster, and he applied it to many problems, particularly the determination of the neutral axis of a glass beam. Neumann, with a full knowledge of the work of Brewster, developed a theory of the analysis of strain by polarised light, and Maxwell also independently developed a theory. A third method, which has assumed great prominence in recent years, is the microscopic examination of metals under stress, as developed by Ewing, and Rosenhain, and others.

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Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of The Royal Society of Edinburgh , Volume 41 , Issue 2 , 1906 , pp. 229 - 250
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1906

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