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A new and simple approach to the digital determination of a photoelastic fringe order using two different loads is proposed. The relationships between the intensity values of light and the isochromatic fringe orders generated from two different loads are derived. The scheme used for the automated determination of the total fringe orders of a full-field photoelastic fringe pattern is described. The usefulness of this method is demonstrated using two isochromatic fringe patterns under two different loads. Extra filters are not needed in the proposed method as in the case of the two-wavelength method.
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Chen, T.Y. A simple method for the digital determination of the photoelastic fringe order. Experimental Mechanics 40, 256–260 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02327497
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