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Traditional photoelasticity has started to lose its appeal since it requires a well-trained specialist to acquire and interpret results. A spectral-contents-analysis approach may help to revive this old, but still useful technique. Light intensity of the beam passed through the stressed specimen contains all the information necessary to automatically extract the value of retardation. This is done by using a photodiode array to investigate the spectral contents of the light beam. Three different techniques to extract the value of retardation from the spectral contents of the light are discussed and evaluated. An experimental system was built which demonstrates the ability to evaluate retardation values in real time.
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Voloshin, A.S., Redner, A.S. Automated measurement of birefringence: Development and experimental evaluation of the techniques. Experimental Mechanics 29, 252–257 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02321403
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