Application of Sharafutdinov's ray transform in integrated photoelasticity

DOI10.1007/S10659-004-7191-1zbMATH Open1084.74019arXivphysics/0309090OpenAlexW3103390311MaRDI QIDQ816714FDOQ816714

Hanno Hammer, William R. B. Lionheart

Publication date: 23 February 2006

Published in: Journal of Elasticity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We explain the main concepts centered around Sharafutdinov's ray transform, its kernel, and the extent to which it can be inverted. It is shown how the ray transform emerges naturally in any attempt to reconstruct optical and stress tensors within a photoelastic medium from measurements on the state of polarization of light beams passing through the strained medium. The problem of reconstruction of stress tensors is crucially related to the fact that the ray transform has a nontrivial kernel; the latter is described by a theorem for which we provide a new proof which is simpler and shorter as in Sharafutdinov's original work, as we limit our scope to tensors which are relevant to Photoelasticity. We explain how the kernel of the ray transform is related to the decomposition of tensor fields into longitudinal and transverse components. The merits of the ray transform as a tool for tensor reconstruction are studied by walking through an explicit example of reconstructing the $sigm{a}_{33}$-component of the stress tensor in a cylindrical photoelastic specimen. In order to make the paper self-contained we provide a derivation of the basic equations of Integrated Photoelasticity which describe how the presence of stress within a photoelastic medium influences the passage of polarized light through the material.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0309090

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zbMATH Keywords

Radon transformtensor tomographystress tensor reconstruction

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Electromagnetic effects in solid mechanics (74F15) Stress concentrations, singularities in solid mechanics (74G70) Physical optics (78A10)

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