Abstract
Two-dimensional photoelasticity deals with the determination of two-dimensional stress fields by use of polarized light. This method is based on the temporary- or artificial-birefringence effect, first discovered by Sir David Brewster [7.1], according to which some transparent materials when subjected to a stress system behave like birefringent crystals. The birefringence in the material is retained only during the application of the loads and disappears when they are removed. According to the temporary-birefringence effect, as explained in the previous chapter, the principal-birefringence axes of the model coincide with the principal axes of the induced two-dimensional state of stress, and the optical birefringence δ induced in a thickness d of the model is
where σ1 and σ2 are the two principal stresses and C is the stress-optical constant of the material of the model.
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Theocaris, P.S., Gdoutos, E.E. (1979). Two-Dimensional Photoelasticity. In: Matrix Theory of Photoelasticity. Springer Series in Optical Sciences, vol 11. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-35789-6_7
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