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Bill
Ranson
Distinguished
Professor
Emeritus
Dr.
Ranson's
research and
interests
include
scale
invariant
computer
vision
applications
to the
measurement
of
mechanical
systems,
mathematical
modeling of
mechanical
systems
measurements
to the
systems life
predictions
application
of
technology
to learning
systems.
Education
-
Ph.D.,
Theoretical
and
Applied
Mechanics,
University
of
Illinois,
1971
-
M.S.,
Mechanical
Engineering,
Auburn
University,
1965
-
B.S.,
Mechanical
Engineering,
Auburn
University,
1962
Selected Publications
-
Pipe
Anchor
Discontinuity
Analysis
Utilizing
Axisymmetric
Power
Series
Solutions,
Bsssel’s
Functions
and
Fourier
Series.
Nuclear
Engineering
and
Design,
August-September,
2001.
(with
D.K.
Williams)
-
Designing
With
Scattered
Light
Photoelasticity*.
SPIE,
Vol. MS
158,
Fall
2000
(with
J.L.
Turner
and
W.F.Swinson)
*
From
selected
papers
on
Photoelasticity
which
represent
the most
important
contributions
over the
last
fifty
years.
Sixty
four
papers
were
selected
as the
most
important
contributions
to the
literature
-
Determination
of
Plastic
Strains
at
Notches
by Image
Processing
Methods.
Experimental
Mechanics,
Vol. 29,
No. 2,
pp.
214-220,
June
1989. (with
C. Lee,
Y.J.
Chao,
M.A.Sutton,
and W.H.
Peters)
-
Image
Processing
for
Strain
Measurement
Under
Higher
Magnification
Proceedings
of
Workshop
on
Adhesion,
Blacksburg,
VA, May
1987.(invited)
-
Automated
Ultrasonic
Measuring
Systems.
Experimental
Techniques,
Jan.
1987,
pp.16-19.
(with
C.I.Umeagukwu,
W.H.Peters
and
J.R.Dickerson)
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