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A dual-beam polariscope for oblique incidence

Technical note indicates that, with dual-beam polariscope and photographic techniques, the principal stresses obtained by the oblique-incidence method have an accuracy in the order of 10 percent

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  1. Research and Development Group, Pitman-Dunn Institute for Research, Frankford Arsenal, Philadelphia, Pa.

    Paul D. Flynn (Physicist)

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This work was supported by the U. S. Army Materiel Command.

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Flynn, P.D. A dual-beam polariscope for oblique incidence. Experimental Mechanics 4, 182–184 (1964). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02329636

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