The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, January 16, 1979, Image 11

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United Press International
knew snm DENVER — Everybody has
• if I wiiuls! P r °blems. To prove it, listen to cof-
•• p| n fin maker Allen Law. Fewer people
are dying since he got into the trade
• « v t ‘ / more than 50 years ago and that’s
bad for business.
|!“The thing that has hurt us is that
the death rate is down,” he said.
“It’s down significantly.
(“The death rate was 15 per 1,000
when I started back in 1927, and
v ' ^ * .Li. now it’s down to eight or nine per
* tlltBoO with all the new drugs and
things. This has had a significant
titicial leg. impact on business.”
8, 19/8. thr L aw & Sons Casket Co. in
mg with Denver designs, manufactures and
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lowest priced coffin his company
makes sells for, hut he did say the
luxury models can go as high as
$5,000.
“They make some fancy caskets,
they really do, he said.
“Some are made out of steel,
some are made out of hardwood -—
oak, cherry, poplar — and some are
made out of lumber materials and
particle board. The metal ones are
painted, and the wooden ones are
covered with cloth, he said.
“The interiors are finished in
silks, velvets, satins —- people like
that — and crepes. Men seem to go
more to the grays and browns, and
women to the blues and other col
ors.”
A delicate business, certainly.
Law, who learned the trade from his
father, knows that, and for many
years accepted the apprehensive
ness felt by the public toward his
calling — an apprehensiveness he
said has now diminished.
There is no month that is busier
than any other in Law’s business,
hut one season brings more calls
than most: Halloween.
“Along about September, espe
cially, that phone will start ringing,”
he said. “They call down here and
ask if we can loan them a casket for
Halloween, hut we won’t loan them
out.
THE BATTALION Page 11
TUESDAY, JANUARY 16, 1979 ^
Photoelastic ‘rainbows’ see flaws
in sheet metal designs for industry
United Press International
NEW YORK — They don t build things like they used to —
there’s not enough metal in it.”
Everyone hears that talk and it’s true that most products contain
much lighter sheet metals, castings and forgings than they used to.
Better alloys are the main reason hut design has played a big role and
that brings up the question of how the designer can prove his ideas
for new shapes that will stand stress and strain better.
He used to have to prove his case first mathematically, then prove
it in actual use after building the car, airplane, boat or piece of
machinery.
He still must work out his designs mathematically hut now the
electronic computer does the donkey work.
And slowly, since the 1930s, new methods of using the polariscope
and photoelastic simulation materials have been developed to test
designs for their stress and strain resistance by means of colored light.
The process generally is called photoelastic stress analysis.
Dr. Felix Zandman, president of Vishay Intertechnology, Inc., of
Malvern, Pa., who brought some of this technology to the United
States from France, is a leader in the field. His company has de
veloped a new method of using a flexible photoelastic film that is
glued to finished components. The component then is vibrated,
jolted and otherwise tested almost to the point of destruction.
Under the polariscope, this produces brilliant, rainhow-like pat
terns of polarized light that reveal the direction and measurable in
tensity of stress at any point in the component.
The designer then can redesign the part to reinforce those areas
where stresses are great or eliminate surplus metal where the stress
analysis shows it is not needed.
The photoelastie film is an epoxy product. The use of photoelastic
stress analysis started on a small scale in the 1930s, Zandman said,
with the use of photoelastie epoxy putties to make models of parts or
whole assemblies to he tested under the rays of the polariscope. But
that still didn’t give sufficient proof of how the actual forging, casting
or assembly would perform.
I he next step was the development of rigid photoelastie films that
could be glued to the part to he tested under the polariscope. The
trouble with this was the film would work only on perfectly flat parts.
Nevertheless, the use of photoelastie stress analysis grew, first in
the aircraft industry, then in automobile factory design departments.
It also spread into shipbuilding and some other industries.
This spread to other products was slow because the process was
limited. It is not possible to use brush-on film because, in order to get
sufficiently accurate test results, absolute control of the thickness of
the photoelastie film is necessary.
But Zandman says now that flexible photoelastie films can be
molded and glued to practically any shape, photoelastie stress
analysis is becoming a design tool for an enormous range of products
of all sizes.
It s inexpensive. The equipment can be bought for around $5,000.
But Zandman emphasizes, “It’s a design tool entirely, it isn’t useful
for production quality control.”
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907 coin
gets record
$7,100
United Press International
CONCORD, N.H. — Even the
cost of money is going up these
days.
A West Lebanon coin dealer has
paid $7,100 for a 1907 $20 gold coin
designed by the artist Augustus St.
Gaudens. The price set a state re
cord.
The coin, bought Friday by
Richard Guignard, was a gold dou
ble eagle whose previous owner
asked to remain anonymous. Guig
nard said .11,250 were minted and
“most of them are lost now or dam
aged.”
St. Gaudens, whose Cornish
home now is a national historic site,
gave many of the coins away to dig
nitaries, Guignard said. “The coin
was made in New Hampshire and it
stays in New Hampshire.”
The previous high state price paid
for a single coin was $1,700 in 1976,
auctioneer Edward Lewis said.
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