Photoelastic Stress Analysis by Use of Hybrid Technique and Fringe Phase Shifting Method

Photoelastic fringe patterns for stress analysis are investigated by use of hybrid technique and fringe phase shift method. The first one is a hybrid method which combines the conformal mapping technique and measured data away from the edge of a geometric discontinuity. Photoelastic data are hybridized with complex variable/mapping techniques to calculate photoelastic stress-field around a circular hole or an elliptical hole in plates under uniaxial tensile loading. This method determines full-field stresses in perforated finite tensile plates containing either a circular or an elliptical hole. The second one is a fringe phase shift method to separate isochromatics and isoclinics from photoelastic fringes of a circular disk under diametric compression by use of phase shift method. Digitally determined isochromatics and isoclinics are agreed well with those of manual measurements.