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Review of RGB photoelasticity

Augusto AjovalasitGiovanni PetrucciMichele Scafidi

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PhotoelasticityComputer sciencebusiness.industryMechanical EngineeringCombined useImage acquisition and elaborationImage processingRGB photoelasticity; Image acquisition and elaboration; Experimental mechanicsAtomic and Molecular Physics and OpticsElectronic Optical and Magnetic MaterialsRGB photoelasticitySettore ING-IND/14 - Progettazione Meccanica E Costruzione Di MacchineLight sourceExperimental mechanicsComputer graphics (images)Lookup tableWhite lightCalibrationRGB color modelComputer visionArtificial intelligenceElectrical and Electronic EngineeringbusinessSettore ING-IND/15 - Disegno E Metodi Dell'Ingegneria Industriale

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Abstract Automatic methods of photoelasticity have had a significant progress with the development of automatic acquisition and image processing methods. This article concerns RGB photoelasticity, which allows the determination of the photoelastic retardation using, usually, a single acquisition of the isochromatic fringes in white light by a colour camera. In particular, the article presents an overview of the main characteristics of RGB photoelasticity that is influence of the quarter-wave plate error, number of acquisitions, type of light source, determination of low and high fringe orders, methods for searching the retardation, scanning procedures, calibration on a material different from that under test, combined use of the RGB and phase shifting methods. A short section on the applications of RGB photoelasticity completes the article.

10.1016/j.optlaseng.2014.12.008http://hdl.handle.net/10447/105429