%0 Journal Article %T New numerical method for the photoelastic technique %A M. J¨²nior %A Pedro Am¨¦rico A. %A Magalh£¿es %A Cristina Almeida %A Smith Neto %A Perrin %J Journal of the Brazilian Society of Mechanical Sciences and Engineering %D 2012 %I Scientific Electronic Library Online %R 10.1590/S1678-58782012000400015 %X the objective of this research is to find new equations for a novel phase-shifting method in digital photoelasticity. some innovations are proposed. in terms of phase-shifting, only the analyzer is rotated, and the other equations are deduced by applying a new numerical technique instead of the usual algebraic techniques. this approach can be used to calculate a larger sequence of images. each image represents a measurement of the stresses present in the object. every photographic image has errors and random noise, but the uncertainties due to these effects can be reduced with a larger number of observations. %K photoelasticity %K metrology %K stress analysis %K optical measurement. %U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1678-58782012000400015&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en