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Photoelasticity
Change in optical properties of a material due to stress / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In materials science, photoelasticity describes changes in the optical properties of a material under mechanical deformation. It is a property of all dielectric media and is often used to experimentally determine the stress distribution in a material.
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