Completely automated determination of two-dimensional photoelastic parameters using load stepping

Optical Engineering

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1845-1851

  Ekman, Matthew J ^a,b   Nurse, Andrew D ^a,c  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Automated photoelasticity; Disk in compression test; Phase stepping; Reflection photoelasticity; Torsion test; Transmission photoelasticity

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000492558     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.601694     Document Type: Article

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