This intensive two-day course containing lectures, equipment demonstrations, practical stress measurements and informal discussions will be held from 26-27 May 2016, in Tallinn, Estonia.
Glass industry and glass research laboratory engineers, technologists and scientists who wish to acquire contemporary photoelastic methods for residual stress measurement in glass products of any shape are invited to attend. Participants may bring samples they want to measure stresses in.
The course will cover basic elasticity, basic photoelasticity, integrated photoelasticity, stress field tomography, scattered light photoelasticity, automatic polariscope AP-07 for residual stress measurement in glass articles of complicated shape, scattered light polariscope SCALP for thickness stress measurement in glass panels, immersion technique, software for stress calculation using measurement data, practical measurement of residual stress in tempered and annealed drinking glasses, bottles, CRT bulb panels and neck tubes, optical fibre performs, architectural glass panels and automotive glazing, etc.
The Director of the Summer School is Dr. Hillar Aben, Leading Research Scientist of the Laboratory of Photoelasticity of the Institute of Cybernetics at Tallinn University of Technology and Scientific Director of GlasStress Ltd. Dr Aben has been involved in developing modern photoelastic techniques for glass stress measurement for more than 40 years. He has published about 150 papers and two books: “Integrated Photoelasticity” (McGraw-Hill, New York, 1979) and “Photoelasticity of Glass” (coauthor C. Guillemet, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1993). Under his leadership polariscopes, supplied with sophisticated software, are being manufactured in GlasStress Ltd. and applied in many glass companies and research laboratories worldwide for residual stress measurement in various glass products.
PhD Johan Anton is Head of the Laboratory of Photoelasticity of the Institute of Cybernetics at Tallinn University of Technology and also CEO of Glasstress Ltd. He is the author of the automatic stress measurement method in axisymmetric glass articles. He is chief constructor of the polariscopes AP and SCALP. He has 16 years experience in elaborating intelligent software for glass stress measurement with integrated photoelasticity and with the scattered light method.
Participants are also invited to prepare 5-10 min presentations about their experience in residual stress measurement in glass.
The course fee is 600 EUR, and for students 300 EUR. The fee includes printed quality copy of the Summer School lectures slides, a CD ROM with the compendium “Photoelasticity of Glass”, manuals of glass stress measurement polariscopes, luncheon, beverage breaks, Summer School Dinner, and guided tour to the ancient City Centre. For registration information visit http://www.glasstress.com.
A free social program for accompanying guests will be organized, including excursion to the ancient City Centre, visits to art galleries and museums etc.