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1Institute of Cybernetics, Tallinn University of Technology, 21 Akadeemia tee, 12618 Tallinn, Estonia.
Abstract:
Recent advances in integrated photoelasticity have opened the possibility of determining tomographically arbitrary three-dimensional stress fields. Since photoelastic tomography is based on experimental measurement of the characteristic parameters, the dependence of these parameters on the stress distribution on a light ray is considered in detail. The possibility of determining certain integrals of the stress components is analyzed, and the linear approximation of integrated photoelasticity has been rigorously treated.
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