We present a novel physically-based method to visualize stress tensor fields. By incorporating photoelasticity into traditional raycasting and extending it with reflection and refraction, taking into account polarization, we obtain the virtual counterpart to traditional experimental polariscopes. This allows us to provide photoelastic analysis of stress tensor fields in arbitrary domains. In ou...

In research of photoelasticity, photoelastic fringe patterns are obtained through a circular polariscope with different optical arrangements and they are processed with image processing techniques in a personal computer. Image processing techniques are reviewed and discussed for stress analysis of the photoelastic fringes in this paper. The image processing techniques include fringe sharpening,...

The elastic properties of materials, either under external load or in a relaxed state, influence their mechanical behaviour. Conventional optical approaches based on techniques such as photoelasticity or thermoelasticity can be used for full-field analysis of the stress distribution within a specimen. The circular polariscope in combination with holographic photoelasticity allows the sum and di...

Scattered-light photoelasticity provides a nondestructive approach for analyzing the stresses in a 3-D photoelastic model. However the applicability of scattered-light photoelasticity is quite limited. In this paper, a finite element scheme is proposed to simulate the fringe patterns resulted from scattered-light photoelastic experiment. Theoretical equations are derived to integrate the retard...

Stereolithography is not only ideal to study the function and the design of a simple or complex component, but also for stress and strain analysis by means of photoelasticity. The basis for using Stereolithograpy components is the biremngent property of the photoPOIYffiers, which has been discovered in 1991 in the Lab ofPhotoelasticity and Holography [5]. Therefore, a few acrylate and epoxy res...

The stress analysis for a model with initial stresses, which we term a residual stress model, is performed by digital photoelasticity. The stresses applied on the residual stress model are obtained by analyzing both the initial stresses and the resultant stresses. The method used for analyzing the stresses applies the principle of superposition of the stress to photoelasticity, which is a well-...