TEACHING TOPICS: A Photoelastic Bench Demonstration Model

Abstract

ONE OF the difficulties of teaching photoelasticity to mechanical and civil engineers is the problem of overcoming their unfamiliarity with the optical principles involved. To them, photoelasticity is merely a tool for stress analysis for certain problems, and yet it requires the use of equipment not usually met with elsewhere and for which an understanding of polarised light is almost essential.

Citation

Davis, P. (1960), "TEACHING TOPICS: A Photoelastic Bench Demonstration Model", Education + Training, Vol. 2 No. 6, pp. 22-23. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb014837