A novel approach for ambiguity removal in isochromatic phasemap in digital photoelasticity

Phasemaps obtained by phase shifting techniques in digital photoelasticity contain ambiguous zones. To obtain total fringe order by phase unwrapping, the phasemap should be free of ambiguous zones. A new method is developed, which uses a dark field image for ambiguous zone identification and its correction. This methodology is explained and validated by solving a benchmark problem. As ambiguous zones are of arbitrary shape, an advanced boundary extraction method developed in-house is used for effecting the correction in practical problems. The performance of the new methodology is demonstrated by using the problem of a ring under diametral compression and a slice cut from a stress frozen model.

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