Abstract
In displacement analysis of opaque bodies using holographic interferometry, it is a common practice to record one hologram of the body at some arbitrary load and then to increase the load and record a second hologram on the same photographic plate. The fringes in the reconstructed image correspond to the change in the displacement occurring between the two exposures. A new technique for photoelastic analysis based on this same idea will be presented. This technique, to be referred to as differential stress-holo-interferometry, has several advantages over existing techniques.
Using vector-algebra methods, the general intensity equations for a double-exposure hologram of a photoelastic model in which neither of the holograms is of the unstressed model is developed. In general the resulting interferogram is difficult to interpret; however, for selected types and levels of loading, a pattern which is easily interpreted results.
It is shown that the isochromatic fringes in these patterns are more precisely defined than those in a conventional double-exposed hologram of a photoelastic model. In addition, the new technique offers the advantages of increased fringe visibility, isochromatic-fringe multiplication, and an aid for the determination of the isochromatic-fringe order.
Finally, for certain types of models, a technique for producing an interferogram in which the isochromatics and isopachics are completely independent and the isopachics do not undergo a half-order-fringe shift is demonstrated.
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Sanford, R.J. Differential stress-holo-interferometry. Experimental Mechanics 13, 330–338 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02322392
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