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Photoelastic and Electro-Optic Properties of Crystals

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Authors:
  1. T. S. Narasimhamurty

    1. Osmania University, Hyderabad, India

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxix
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  2. Photoelasticity of Crystals. Introduction

    • T. S. Narasimhamurty
    Pages 1-8

  3. Mathematical Tools, Tensor Properties of Crystals, and Geometrical Crystallography

    • T. S. Narasimhamurty
    Pages 9-45

  4. Pockels’ Phenomenological Theory of Photoelasticity of Crystals

    • T. S. Narasimhamurty
    Pages 47-133

  5. Elasticity of Crystals

    • T. S. Narasimhamurty
    Pages 135-195

  6. Experimental Methods of Determining the Photoelastic Constants

    • T. S. Narasimhamurty
    Pages 197-297

  7. Atomistic Theory of Photoelasticity of Cubic Crystals

    • T. S. Narasimhamurty
    Pages 299-331

  8. Piezoelectricity

    • T. S. Narasimhamurty
    Pages 333-344

  9. Electro-Optic Effects in Crystals: Pockels Linear Electro-Optic and Kerr Quadratic Electro-Optic Effects

    • T. S. Narasimhamurty
    Pages 345-419

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 421-514
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About this book

This comprehensive treatise reviews, for the first time, all the essential work over the past 160 years on the photoelastic and the closely related linear and quadratic electro-optic effects in isotropic and crystalline mate­ rials. Emphasis is placed on the phenomenal growth of the subject during the past decade and a half with the advent of the laser, with the use of high-frequency acousto-optic and electro-optic techniques, and with the discovery of new piezoelectric materials, all of which have offered a feedback to the wide interest in these two areas of solid-state physics. The first of these subjects, the photoelastic effect, was discovered by Sir David Brewster in 1815. He first found the effect in gels and subsequently found it in glasses and crystals. While the effect remained of academic interest for nearly a hundred years, it became of practical value when Coker and Filon applied it to measuring stresses in machine parts. With one photograph and subsequent analysis, the stress in any planar model can be determined. By taking sections of a three-dimensional model, complete three-dimensional stresses can be found. Hence this effect is widely applied in industry.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Osmania University, Hyderabad, India

    T. S. Narasimhamurty

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Photoelastic and Electro-Optic Properties of Crystals

  • Authors: T. S. Narasimhamurty

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-0025-1

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1981

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4757-0027-5Published: 14 June 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4757-0025-1Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: 544

  • Number of Illustrations: 36 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Condensed Matter Physics

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