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It has recently been shown that a gamma-ray irradiation fixes the birefringence in photoelastic models of Araldite B. The method has hitherto only been used to fix the birefringence in specimens subjected to constant forces. This work applies the irradiation method to determine the thermal stresses in a thick-walled cylinder with a temperature gradient along the radius. The model behaved in the following way during the experiment. The material relaxed when the temperature gradient was applied, and the model was irradiated when it was stress free. Real stresses, which were equal to the thermal stresses but with opposite sign, appeared when the temperature gradient was removed. As the problem is mathematically two-dimensional, it is possible to determine the birefringence by means of the slicing technique. Good agreement was obtained between the stress determined experimentally and those calculated analytically.
The irradiation sensitivity of a number of materials has been determined, and some new materials have been used that are superior in two important ways to that used earlier in that they require a much lower irradiation dose and their mechanical properties are considerably better.
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Gross-Petersen, J.F. The gamma-ray-irradiation method applied to three-dimensional thermal photoelasticity. Experimental Mechanics 12, 414–419 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02318552
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