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How does a pencil break?
Have you ever broken your pencil while writing? Have you ever wondered how and why it breaks? You might rarely use a wooden pencil in...
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Real-life FEM: Using photoelasticity to measure stress in transparent materials
“Stress” is an abstract concept…what exactly does the ratio of force per unit area mean for a complicated specimen? Well turns out there...
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A lost art: Using brittle coatings to measure strain in complicated structures
Today the state-of-art method for strain measurement is to use expensive digital image correlation (DIC) systems which triangulate the...
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