Determination of isoclinics in photoelasticity with a fast regularized estimator

The determination of isoclinics from photoelastic fringe patterns is a key problem in photoelasticity. Dealing with this problem, however, is not a simple task when isotropic points are present which is common for most experimental situations. Because of this, few researchers have proposed effective and practical solutions. Visualizing this problem as the problem of the determination of the modulo 2π fringe orientation, in this paper it is proposed an efficient regularized algorithm to solve it. Experimental results show that the proposal is effective and can be used with either monochromatic or white light.