photoelasticity
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11 sectionsContents
- History
- Applications
- Formal definition
- Experimental principles
- Isoclinics and isochromatics
- Two-dimensional photoelasticity
- Plane polariscope setup
- Circular polariscope setup
- See also
- References
- External links
thumb|Plastic utensils in a photoelasticity experiment
In materials science, photoelasticity describes changes in the optical properties of a material under mechanical deformation. It is a property of all dielectric media and is often used to experimentally determine the stress distribution in a material.