Photoelastic techniques are primarily applied in practice to the following three cases. The first case applies to two-dimensional models using transmission photoelasticity. The second one uses photoelastic coatings on actual components using reflectio...
Photoelastic techniques are primarily applied in practice to the following three cases. The first case applies to two-dimensional models using transmission photoelasticity. The second one uses photoelastic coatings on actual components using reflection photoelastic techniques. The third case can be applicable to three dimensional models using the stress-freezing method. It is generally not easy to obtain higher order fringes in the second and third cases. Consequently, fringe multiplication is quite important since the standard methods of compensation used to evaluate fractional fringe orders are time-consuming. Fringe-multiplication is, in a sense, a whole field compensation technique where the fractional orders of the fringes can be determined simultaneously over the entire field of the model. This paper presents a simple technique of isochromatic fringe multiplication in photoelasticity using only one fringe pattern by digital image processing.