A method is described of finding the directions of the principal axes of stress at any point of a thin slice cut from a "frozen stress" model. The paper includes an account of the method of recording results by a stereographic projection, and a description of the universal tilting microscope stage with a brief investigation into the theory of its use.
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Jessop et al. (1950) studied this question.