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News Release from: VisEng | Subject: GFP2000
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 01 October 2002
Practical system for photoelastic stress
analysis
Photoelastic stress analysis has become a fully automated dynamic real-time application, suitable for use in a production line environment with the release of the GFP2000 Grey-Field Poleidoscope.
Photoelastic stress analysis (PSA) has become a fully automated dynamic real-time application, suitable for use in a production line environment with the release of the GFP2000 Grey-Field Poleidoscope This powerful equipment will benefit design, endurance testing and quality assurance amongst others in the automotive, aerospace, windscreen, bottle, CD-ROM and tyre industries
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 27 Sep 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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Features of the GFP2000 include: dynamic testing; use in confined places; possible use in dynamic rigs; real-time images of stress patterns; compact size camera head and fibre optic delivered light source; and use in a production line environment.
The system comprises a camera, a remote light source and projection head and computer hardware and software.
It is extremely compact and flexible so that it can be used in dynamic situations, providing a detailed moving stress map of the parts under analysis.
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