Application of Muller's Method to Photoelasticity,

Abstract

The authors discuss the principal assumptions in Muller's method and demonstrate on an example that it can be used to analyze various polarization circuits which are used in photoelasticity. The essence of the Muller method is that the light beam and the optical device (polaroid, phase plate, photoelastic material of the model) can be represented in matrix form in such a way that the results of the polarization light transformations can be computed simply by multiplying these matrices. Thus, if the optical device is described by the matrix U and the incoming and outgoing light beams by the matrices A(O) and A, then A = UA(O).

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 08, 1973
Accession Number
AD0765729

Entities

People

  • G. D. Radchenko

Organizations

  • United States Army Foreign Science and Technology Center

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Elastic Properties
  • Materials
  • Mechanical Properties
  • Photoelasticity
  • Polarization

Readers

  • Materials Science (Mechanical Engineering).
  • Optical Fiber Sensing and Electromagnetic Propagation.
  • Regression Analysis.