The Photoelastic Effect and Its Applications

The Meaning of the Photoelastic Effect.- General Reports.- Classical and Advanced Methods of Photoelasticity.- A Critical Review on the Use of Polymers in Photoplasticity.- The Interaction of a Material Continuum with an Electromagnetic Field in the Frame of the Classical Theory of Field.- Phenomenological Analysis of Mechanical and Optical Behaviour of Rheo-Optically Simple Materials.- The Available Experimental Methods for Measuring Optical Properties of Matter.- The Use of Atomic Gauges for Studying Local Stress Effects in Crystals.- Streaming Double Refraction, a General Report.- Additional Physical Fields in Photoelasticity.- The Photoelastic Effect from a Theoretical Point of View.- Electrodynamics of Photoelastic Media: Theory and Experiment.- Higher Order Photoelastic Interactions: Theory and Experiment.- Rotation-Dependence of the Photoelastic Effect.- Some Magneto-Optical Effects Related to the Faraday and Hall Effects.- Electro-Optical and Magneto-Optical Effects.- A Note on Rational Continuum Mechanics and the Description of Magnetizable Dielectric Fluid Mixtures.- Applications of the Photoelastic Effect.- Photoviscoelasticity: Theory and Practice.- Polarimetrie et Photoelasticimetrie.- Photoelastic Effect Analysed by Means of the j-Circle Method.- Static and Dynamic Ponctual Method for the Determination of the Neutral Axis and the Algebric Value or the Birefringence for a Plane Plate.- Recent Work in Absolute Measurement of Birefringence.- A Compensation Method in Scattered Light Photoelasticity.- On the Determination of Scale Functions for the Transmission of Results in Photoelastic Analysis of Plate Problems.- Some Remarks to the Photoelastic Investigations of Dynamic Problems.- Photoelastic Study of Elastohydrodynamic Lubrification.- Stress Concentrations in Monolithic Structures Subjected to Mechanical and Thermal Loading.- Conclusions.- Concluding Summary.