IIT Madras commercializes four softwares for photoelastic analysis and simulation

NEW DELHI: The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras has commercialized four state-of-the-art softwares to facilitate photoelastic analysis and simulation, a statement from the institute said. The softwares were prepared after a three-decade long research, led by K Ramesh, a professor at the institute and his students.

The softwares will be applicable in diverse fields, ranging from agricultural applications to locomotion of organisms, the statement further read. As per the notification released by the institute, the softwares are the first ones for experimentally-based photoelastic stress analysis tools. Using the softwares, the doctors, agriculturists and biologists will be able to process recorded images for deriving conclusions from their studies.

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Highlighting the importance of the softwares, Ramesh said: "No such software modules are available till now across the world on exploiting photoelastic technique, which is an experimental approach that is used to validate the solution from numerical approaches. It is not just one problem but the focus has been to develop a complete package for a technique in all its completeness. It is akin to developing a finite element package that is used for numerical solution by solving appropriate differential equations".

"The technique of photoelasticity is increasingly being used in diverse domains such as dentistry, prosthetic development, design of epidural injection needle shape, improvement of material processing such as in precision glass moulding, stresses in 3D electronics apart from several mechanical and aerospace applications involving stress analysis", Ramesh further said.