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A Method of Measuring Post-Yield Strain

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2016

F. J. Woodcock
Affiliation:
Royal Aircraft Establishment and Fighting Vehicles Research and Development Establishment
K. R. Weiss
Affiliation:
Royal Aircraft Establishment and Fighting Vehicles Research and Development Establishment

Extract

Increasing interest has been shown recently in the measurement and interpretation of post-yield strains. Early investigators determined the nature and magnitude of such strains by observing the distortion of a grid of fine lines inscribed on the unstrained metal. A development of this method involved the use of a photographically deposited grid.

In the present instance the initial requirement (August 1948) was for the measurement against time of strains of the order of 4 per cent. occurring as “ fast transients.”

As the wire resistance strain gauge element was well established, it was natural to consider its extension to post-yield measurements, and it later became apparent that this had already been done by Swainger.

Type
Technical Notes
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1953

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