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Polymers are widely used as photomechanical models of a prototype material (often a metal). Photoplasticity is one of the methods used in order to show the behavior of plastic materials stressed beyond the linear elastic limit. To illustrate this process we have analyzed the photovisco-elastoplastic behavior of polycarbonate as a photoplastic material. In this paper a technique for local and simultaneous measurement of birefringence and principal strains is presented. The mechanical and optical properties, at room temperature, have been evaluated by means of uniaxial tension tests. A series of creep tests has been carried out in order to study the photovisco-elastoplastic behavior of polycarbonate. In two different experiments we analyzed nonlinear birefringence and the amplitude of the corresponding strains. We could thus evaluate the distribution of strains and the distribution of uniaxial stress for each birefringence state and vice versa.
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Ait El Ferrane, M.I., Lagarde, A. Photovisco-elastoplastic behavior of polycarbonate material under creep and tension tests. Experimental Mechanics 33, 148–152 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02322491
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