SEM history: Dr. Max Mark Frocht

From: Experimental Techniques | Date: November 1, 2000| Author: Taylor, C E; Srinath, L S | Copyright information

Dr. Max Frocht was the best known American photoelastician of the twentieth century. His books, Photoelasticity, Volume I and Volume II, quickly became classics and were translated into Russian, Spanish, and Chinese. Through those books and his many research innovations Max became an internationally acclaimed photoelastician. He was an important contributor at all of the early SESA meetings and his excellent photoelastic fringe photographs and well written papers became his hallmark. Dr. Froc...

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