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    of dynamic photoelasticity, which has contributed greatly to the study of complex phenomena such as fracture of materials. Photoelasticity has been used...
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  • Phase modulator for ellipsometry Photoelasticity Canit, J. C.; Badoz, J. (1983-02-15). "New design for a photoelastic modulator". Applied Optics. 22 (4):...
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  • of the Development of Photoelasticity in Germany, Especially in Munich". In Nisida, Masataka; Kawata, Kozo (eds.). Photoelasticity. International Symposium...
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    e.g., an external force or electric field. This effect is called photoelasticity, and can be used to reveal stresses in structures. The birefringent...
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    studied the birefringence of crystals under compression and discovered photoelasticity, thereby creating the field of optical mineralogy. For this work, William...
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    attributed this phenomenon to stress-induced birefringence —now known as photoelasticity. In a memoir read in September 1822, Fresnel announced that he had...
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    A comparison (using transmission photoelasticity) between the stress diffusion in an elastic body (on the left) and a model of masonry (on the right)...
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    Stresses in a contact area loaded simultaneously with a normal and a tangential force. Stresses were made visible using photoelasticity....
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    diffraction order. The acousto-optic effect is a specific case of photoelasticity, where there is a change of a material's permittivity, ε {\displaystyle...
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    of stress-induced birefringence and by employing techniques of 3D photoelasticity. The high fracture toughness due to residual compressive stresses makes...
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    Electro-optic modulator Jeffree cell Liquid crystal tunable filter Photoelasticity Pockels effect "Acousto-optic Theory Application Notes" (PDF). Paschotta...
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    related to the strain in a material by way of the given material's photoelasticity tensor. DOP is also visualized using the Poincaré sphere representation...
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    had developed within the jelly. Through this practice he discovered photoelasticity, which is a means of determining the stress distribution within physical...
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  • Lab-on-a-chip Leaf sensor Machine vision Microelectromechanical systems MOSFET Photoelasticity Quantum sensor Radar Ground-penetrating radar Synthetic aperture radar...
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  • direct refraction experiment verifying David Brewster's hypothesis that photoelasticity (as it is now known) is stress-induced birefringence. 1863 – Robert...
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  • He received a Ph.D. at the Sorbonne as a physicist on a subject of photoelasticity. He was awarded the Edward Longstreth Medal from the Franklin Institute...
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    test and the reassembly at Cordouan, Fresnel submitted his papers on photoelasticity (16 September 1822), elliptical and circular polarization and optical...
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  • Birefringence Color Electro-optic effect Luminosity Optical activity Photoelasticity Photosensitivity Reflectivity Refractive index Scattering Transmittance...
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    ^{4}}}n^{8}p^{2}kT_{\text{f}}\beta } where n is the refraction index, p is the photoelastic coefficient of the glass, k is the Boltzmann constant, and β is the isothermal...
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  • shear stress is constant. These curves are directly determined using photoelasticity methods. Isopachs are curves along which the mean normal stress is...
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    can introduce aberration in the light reflected from a mirror, or photoelasticity inside a lens. In some lasers the mirrors have to be easily replaced...
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  • His sister Agnes Pockels (1862–1935) was a pioneer in chemistry. Photoelasticity Physical crystallography before X-rays Katzir, Shaul (2003). "From...
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    electrolytes apparently stable to Li metal, as visualized and measured using photoelasticity experiments, dendrites propagate primarily due to pressure build up...
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    when subject to mechanical stress, a phenomenon which is the basis of photoelasticity. Non-birefringent methods, to rotate the linear polarisation of light...
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    rotation is dependent on wavelength. The experimental method called photoelasticity used for analyzing stress distribution in solids is based on the same...
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    can be modulated either by a chopper wheel, acousto-optical modulator, photoelastic modulator at a large enough frequency so that 1/f noise drops off significantly...
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  • ISBN 9780486659572. P.S. Theocaris; E.E. Gdoutos (1979). Matrix Theory of Photoelasticity. Springer Series in Optical Sciences. Vol. 11 (1st ed.). Springer-Verlag...
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  • studied using the boundary element method (BEM) and validated using photoelasticity. Analytical solutions obtained in prestressed elasticity show the possibility...
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    experimental methods for measuring stress concentration factors including photoelastic stress analysis, thermoelastic stress analysis, brittle coatings or strain...
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  • measuring technique of photoelasticity in Germany. During the Second World War, he relocated his residence and photoelasticity laboratory to Ammerland...
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