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Caustics Bibliography

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1. Theocaris, P S, Elastic Stress Intensity Factors Evaluated by Caustics, in G C Sih (ed.) Mechanics of Fracture, Vol. 7, Sijthoff and Noordhoff, (1981)

2. Theocaris, P S, Local Yielding Around a Crack Tip in Plexiglas, Jnl. of Applied Mechanics, 37, (1970), 409-415

3. Theocaris, P S and Razem, C I, Error Analysis in Evaluating Stress Intensity Factors by Reflected Caustics, Int. J. Mech. Sci., 23, (1981), 275-284

4. Kalthoff, J F, The Shadow Optical Method of Caustics, in A S Kobayashi (ed.), Handbook on Experimental Mechanics, Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, (1987), 430-500

5. Beinert, J, and Kalthoff, J F, Experimental Determination of Dynamic Stress Intensity Factors by Shadow Patterns, in G C Sih (ed.) Mechanics of Fracture, Vol. 7, Sijthoff and Noordhoff, (1981)

6. Kitchin, R A and Patterson, E A, The practical use of virtual reflection caustics, Fat Fract. Eng Mat. Struct., 16, (6), (1993), 597-602

7. Carazo-Alvarez, J. and Patterson E.A. Study of contact loads by using image processing and non-linear regression with caustics. Proc of Int. Congress on Exp. Mech., (1995), 812-819.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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