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Photometric Methods of Caustics

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Failure in structures and machine components are known to be caused by flows or crack like defects which ar considered to be initially present in the components or initiated by repeated stressing and grown finally to critical size.

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© 1986 Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, Dordrecht

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Sukere, A.A. (1986). Photometric Methods of Caustics. In: Wieringa, H. (eds) Experimental Stress Analysis. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4416-9_46

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