RT Journal Article SR Electronic A1 Trebuňa, František A1 Jadlovský, Ján A1 Frankovský, Peter A1 Bakšiová, Zuzana A1 Kostelníková, Anna T1 Further Possibilities of Using Software PhotoStress for Separation of Principal Normal Stresses JF Acta Mechanica Slovaca YR 2010 VO 14 IS 4 SP 82 OP 91 DO 10.2478/v10147-011-0038-4 UL https://www.actamechanica.sk/artkey/ams-201004-0010.php AB Software PhotoStress, elaborated in our laboratories allows determination of directions and magnitudes of strains or principal normal stresses in loaded photoelastically coated structural elements. It allows accelerating process of measurement and evaluation of deformations or stresses in point, along line or along curve, respectively. In those entities can be determined directions, and magnitudes of differences and separated principal deformations or stresses on the basis of photography of loaded photoelastically coated objects. In the paper is given procedure for of evaluation of separated principal normal stresses by using of separation methods: method of difference of shear stresses with using separation strain gage and method of oblique incidence.