Glass Stress Summer School registration open

The 17th Tallinn Glass Stress Summer School will be held from 25-26 May 2017, at the Nordic Hotel Forum, Tallinn, Estonia. It is an intensive two-day course with lectures, equipment demonstrations, practical stress measurements and informal discussions.

Engineers, technologists and scientists from glass industry and glass research laboratories who wish to acquire contemporary photoelastic methods for residual stress measurement in glass products of any shape are invited to attend. The participants may bring to Summer School samples they want to measure stresses in.

Course Outline:

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. 

Faculty:

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. H. Aben has been involved in developing modern photoelastic techniques for glass stress measurement for more than 40 years. He has published on this topic about 150 papers and two books: “Integrated Photoelasticity” (McGraw-Hill, New York, 1979) and “Photoelasticity of Glass” (coauthor C. Guillemet, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1993). H. Aben has been the organizer and main lecturer  of the 16 previous Tallinn Glass Stress Summer Schools. 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 invited to prepare 5-10 min presentations about their experience in residual stress measurement in glass.

Registration Information Register at our home-page: http://www.glasstress.com or send or fax the Registration Form to us as soon as possible.