"Version: 202110"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Basics of photoelasticity and photoplasticity -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Birefringence and its use in photoelasticity -- 1.3. Retardation plates -- 1.4. Stress-optic law -- 1.5. Optical arrangements and fringe fields in conventional photoelasticity -- 1.6. Jones calculus -- 1.7. Analysis of plane polariscope by Jones c…