Abstract

This paper is a contribution to the experimental stress analysis of composite structures subjected to gravitational forces. It is proved, generally, that the immersion analogy can be used to analyze these stresses in composite bodies provided all the materials of such bodies have the same weight per unit volume. Applications are described in two-dimensional problems immersing urethane-rubber models bonded to epoxy shells in a thallium-formate solution. Photoelasticity is used to determine stresses. The method increases the response obtained and will have application in the solution of problems where constant-acceleration stresses are important, as in dams and solid-propellant rocket grains.

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