The automatic measurement system for internal stress of acrylic

The manual measurement system for internal stress of acrylic was designed and realized, which is based on photo-elastic principle and spectrometric method. The manual measurement system can support mobile and quantitative measurement, and plays an important role in the fields of material research and engineering project. With the extensive application of the stress measurement system, automation is required to promote measuring efficiency and overcome the shortcomings of the manual measurement system. Electric control turntable was chosen as the key component for automation and adopted in the automatic measurement system. The automatic measurement system is controlled by program and user interface for operation has also been improved. The automatic measurement system has been realized and used for measuring internal stress of acrylic in the laboratory, which achieved the expected effect. The components of the automatic measurement system, the user interface for control program and data processing, and the stress measurements of the acrylic samples by the automatic measurement system are discussed in this article.