A PHOTOELASTIC INVESTIGATION OF STRESSES IN TWO DIFFERENT PIPE FITTINGS.

Abstract

Photoelastic methods using frozen stresses are very useful for experimentally determining stress distributions in bodies having complicated geometries for which no analytical solution is known. The method is applied to cylindrical pipe fittings having discontinuities and subjected to hydrostatic internal pressure loading. The equipment used, the method of model construct on and the calibration of the model material are described. Two models having different geometries are tested and the results are compared with theory and with each other.

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 1966
Accession Number
AD0487415

Entities

People

  • Richard Everett Davies

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Calibration
  • Commercial Equipment
  • Discontinuities
  • Fittings
  • Geometry
  • Internal Pressure
  • Materials
  • Pipe Fittings
  • Pressure Distribution

Fields of Study

  • Engineering

Readers

  • Approximation Theory.
  • Combustion and Flow Dynamics.
  • Mechanical Engineering/Mechanics of Materials.