ISSN:
1741-2765
Source:
Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
Topics:
Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science, Production Engineering, Mining and Metallurgy, Traffic Engineering, Precision Mechanics
Notes:
Abstract In photoviscoelasticity, the difference in principal stresses at a point depends not only on the history of isochromatic-fringe order, but also on the history of isoclinic angle. Thus, meaningful interpretation of the isochromatic data in terms of stress cannot be made without knowledge of the isoclinic history. When the isoclinic angle is changing rapidly, the traditional method of rotating the polarizer-analyzer pair in a plane polariscope by mechanical means is limited by practical rotation rates. Magnetic rotation of the polarization, using the Faraday effect, is possible, but suffers from the problem that the isoclinic patterns are viewed sequentially. This limitation is also inherent in the slower mechanical-rotation method. This paper describes a new method of viewing several full-field isoclinic patterns simultaneously. Thus, the recording system has more time to make each record, and requirements on film speed and framing rates may be relaxed by an order of magnitude.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF02327645
Permalink