Digital photoelastic evaluation of stress intensity factors (SIFs) of bimaterial interface cracks using the method of least
squares and the multi-parameter stress field equations is of current interest. For this, positional coordinates (with crack
tip as origin) and corresponding fringe orders of data points are collected along isochromatic fringe contours in such a
way that the geometric features of the fringe field are captured. Whole-field evaluation of isochromatic parameter is now
made possible by various techniques of digital photoelasticity, enabling automation of the data collection procedure and
collection of data points along fractional fringe orders as well. However, the identification of the crack tip, still done
interactively, is prone to error. When the crack tip location is inaccurately identified, the evaluated SIFs are considerably
different. The effect of error in precise identification of the crack tip on the evaluated SIFs is analyzed with the help of
theoretically simulated fringe fields, in order to arrive at a technique by which the crack tip could be detected in a semiautomated
fashion reducing this error in the evaluated SIFs.
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