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Fundamentals of Optics

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Part of the book series: Solid Mechanics and Its Applications ((SMIA,volume 269))

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Optical methods of stress analysis, including geometric, coherent, and interferometric moiré, photoelasticity, interferometry, speckle photography and interferometry, holography, optical fibers, digital image correlation, are of great importance in experimental mechanics.

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Gdoutos, E.E. (2022). Fundamentals of Optics. In: Experimental Mechanics. Solid Mechanics and Its Applications, vol 269. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-89466-5_2

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