Name: Photoelasticity Accessory
Brand: PASCO
SKU: ME-8241
Price: 315.0 USD

See stress lines by bending a clear, colorless photo elastic I-beam between two polarizing sheets. As the beam is bent, areas of greater stress show up as patterns of colored lines.

Photoelasticity Accessory consists of two crossed polarizing sheets that are placed in front of and behind the clear beam. When illuminated from behind by a bright white light, fringes due to the stress lines become visible.

Set of two crossed polarizing sheets which display stress lines as beams as submit to three-point bending tests.

What's Included

2x Two polarizing sheets, 5 3/8” x 5 3/8” x 1/8”
1x Photoelastic I-Beam Set

Description Experiments Documents

Product Summary

See stress lines by bending a clear, colorless photoelastic I-beam between two polarizing sheets. As the beam is bent, areas of greater stress show up as patterns of colored lines.

What's Included

2x Two polarizing sheets, 5 3/8” x 5 3/8” x 1/8”
1x Photoelastic I-Beam Set (ME-7011)

Experiment Library

Perform the following experiments and more with the Photoelasticity Accessory.
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College / Engineering

Photoelasticity

Photoelasticity is used to determine the stress distribution in birefringent plastics, such as polycarbonate. This experiment uses the clear polycarbonate beams from the PASCO Structures System. Two crossed polarizing sheets are...