Digital photoelasticity – A comprehensive review
10 Jun 2011-Journal of Strain Analysis for Engineering Design (SAGE Publications)-Vol. 46, Iss: 4, pp 245-266
TL;DR: This review thematically classifies all the developments in digital photoelasticity and highlights the relative merits and drawbacks of the various techniques to allow an end-user to make an informed choice on the type of technique to be used in a particular situation.
Abstract: Digital photoelasticity has rapidly progressed in the last few years and has matured into an industry-friendly technique. This review thematically classifies all the developments in digital photoelasticity and highlights the relative merits and drawbacks of the various techniques. The overall objective is to provide enough information and guidance to allow an end-user to make an informed choice on the type of technique to be used in a particular situation.
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TL;DR: Two new methods are presented that provide a complete solution for the automatic fringe analysis of photoelastic data and a new method is proposed that removes the areas of 2π ambiguity in an isoclinic phase map by cross-correlating regions of low modulation at two different wavelengths.
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TL;DR: A new strategy for processing phasestepped data from birefringent materials is proposed and involves demodulation of intensity signals and the classification of periods of data using fuzzy sets.
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TL;DR: A new phase-measuring algorithm is presented that permits the extraction of the isochromatic phase with almost no influence from the isoclinics, thus avoiding the usual problems of low-modulation areas associated with isOClinics.
Abstract: In recent years phase-measuring techniques have been applied to the problem of extracting information of photoelastic data. We present a new phase-measuring algorithm for extraction of the isochromatics of photoelastic fringe patterns. The algorithm permits the extraction of the isochromatic phase with almost no influence from the isoclinics, thus avoiding the usual problems of low-modulation areas associated with isoclinics. The isochromatic phase map obtained with this algorithm is well suited for a full separation of the stress components in a sample. The algorithm can be used with any commercial diffuse-light circular polariscope.
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TL;DR: An overdeterministic least-squares phase-stepping method for automated photoelasticity and a three-wavelength approach to determination of the absolute value of the isochromatic parameter are shown to give reliable results.
Abstract: An overdeterministic least-squares phase-stepping method for automated photoelasticity is described. Problems associated with isochromatic–isoclinic interaction are solved by use of a three-wavelength method to calculate the value of the isochromatic parameter and the isoclinic angle. The ramped isoclinic phase map can now be unwrapped to give the orientation of the principal stresses with respect to a reference axis of the polariscope unambiguously. A three-wavelength approach to determination of the absolute value of the isochromatic parameter is shown to give reliable results also.
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TL;DR: A technique for full-field evaluation of the isoclinic parameter is presented that combines the phase-shifting method with true color imaging technology and can be suitably integrated with known methods for evaluating the retardations.
Abstract: In this paper, a technique for full-field evaluation of the isoclinic parameter is presented. It combines the phase-shifting method with true color imaging technology to minimize the interaction between isoclinic and isochromatic fringes. The paper also shows how the proposed technique can be suitably integrated with known methods for evaluating the retardations. Furthermore, a digital algorithm for filtering wrapped phase data obtained by general phase-shifting techniques is presented.
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