Abraham BETSER
BIOGRAPHICAL DATA
b. Germany, 1919. M.Sc. Hebrew University 1949. M.Sc. Illinois Inst. of
Technology, 1955. Ph.D. Illinois Inst. of Technology, 1956. Scientific
Department, Ministry of Defense, 1950. Brown University 1964-65. University
of Illinois, 1975-1976. University of Washington, 1980-1981. Technical
University, Delft, The Netherlands, University of California, Berkeley,
1986-87. At Technion since 1957. Professor Emeritus since 1987.
MAIN INTERESTS
Photomechanics, mainly holography, specklegraphy and interferometry, structures,
computers, computer graphics.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
"Recording slope and curvature contours of flexed plates using a grating
shearing interferometer", Applied Optics, 16, Sept. 1977,
pp. 2504-2513 (with A. Assa and J. Politch).
"Hydroforming process for uniform wall thickness products", J. Engineering
for Industry (ASME), 99, Series B, No. 3, Aug. 1977, pp. 685-691
(with J. Tirosh, S. Yosifon and R. Eshel).
"Interferometric methods for measuring the distribution of curvature
and twist of plates", in Applications of Holography and Optical Data
Processing, Pergamon Press, 1977, pp. 305-315 (with A. Assa and J.
Politch).
"Experimental mechanics in Israel", Experimental Mechanics, 21,
2, pp. 58-70, 1981.
"On the dynamic propagation of a crack in a finite rectangular plate",
Engineering Fracture Mechanics, 14, pp. 142-154, 1981 (with
M. Perl and M. Shmuely).
Tel: 972-4-829-3197 Fax: 972-4-829-2030
E-mail: aer4701@tx.technion.ac.il