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A method to produce uniform plane-stress states with applications to fiber-reinforced materials

A specially designed specimen yields material properties under pure shear or uniform plane-stress conditions

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This work is concerned with a new method for testing material properties under uniform plane-stress conditions by means of a specially designed plane specimen. Photoelastic analysis showed that in the significant section of the specimen it is possible to produce uniform plane stress, with high accuracy, subject to the limitation that the principal stresses are of different signs. An important special case of loading produces pure shear on the significant section. The specimen is of particular importance for fiber-composite testing.

The experimental results presented are encouraging.

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  1. Department of Solid Mechanics, Materials and Structures, School of Engineering, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel

    M. Arcan (Associate Professor), Z. Hashin (Professor and Chairman) & A. Voloshin (Graduate Assistant)

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Arcan, M., Hashin, Z. & Voloshin, A. A method to produce uniform plane-stress states with applications to fiber-reinforced materials. Experimental Mechanics 18, 141–146 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02324146

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