High-Accuracy 2D Digital Image Correlation Measurements with Bilateral Telecentric Lenses: Error Analysis and Experimental Verification

By comparing two digital images of a test planar specimen surface recorded in different configurations, two-dimensional digital image correlation (2D-DIC) provides full-field displacements to sub-pixel accuracy and full-field strains in the recorded images. For the 2D-DIC systems using an optical lens, a simple pinhole imaging model is commonly used to describe the linear relationship between the measured sensor plane displacements and the actual displacements in the object surface. However, in a practical measurement, various unavoidable disadvantageous factors, such as small out-of-plane motion of the test object surface occurred after loading, small out-of-plane motion of the sensor target due to the self-heating or temperature variation of a camera, and geometric distortion of the imaging lens, may seriously impair or slightly change the originally assumed linear correspondence. In certain cases, these disadvantages may lead to significant errors in displacements and strains measured by 2D-DIC. In this work, the measurement errors of 2D-DIC due to the above three disadvantageous factors are first described in detail. Then, to minimize the errors associated with these disadvantages, a high-accuracy 2D-DIC system using a bilateral telecentric lens is established. The performance of the established 2D-DIC system and other two 2D-DIC systems using a conventional lens and an object-side telecentric lens are investigated experimentally using easy-to-implement stationary, out-of-plane and in-plane rigid body translation tests. A detailed examination reveals that a high-quality bilateral telecentric lens is not only insensitive to out-of-plane motion of the test object and the self-heating of a camera, but also demonstrates negligible lens distortion. Uniaxial tensile tests of an aluminum specimen were also performed to quantitatively compare the axial and transversal strains measured by the proposed 2D-DIC system and those measured by strain gage rosettes. The perfect agreement between the two measurements further verifies the accuracy of the established 2D-DIC system.     

Diffraction Assisted Image Correlation: A Novel Method for Measuring Three-Dimensional Deformation using Two-Dimensional Digital Image Correlation

Digital Image Correlation (DIC) provides a full-field non-contact optical method for accurate deformation measurement of materials, devices and structures. The measurement of three-dimensional (3D) deformation using DIC in general requires imaging with two cameras and a 3D-DIC code. In the present work, a new experimental technique, namely, Diffraction Assisted Image Correlation (DAIC) for 3D displacement measurement using a single camera and 2D-DIC algorithm is presented. A transmission diffraction grating is placed between the specimen and the camera, resulting in multiple images which are then used to obtain apparent in-plane displacements using 2D-DIC. The true in-plane and out-of-plane displacements of the specimen are obtained from the apparent in-plane displacements and the diffraction angle of the grating. The validity and accuracy of the DAIC method are demonstrated through 3D displacement measurement of a small thin membrane. This technique provides new avenues for performing 3D deformation measurements at small length scales and/or dynamic loading conditions.     

球形压痕的残余变形分析

球形压痕技术在材料力学属性，诸如硬度，弹性模量等的测量中得到了广泛的应用。应用Twyman-Green及云纹干涉法并配合相移技术，本文对IN783合金进行了一系列的球形压痕实验研究，并对残余压痕的面内（u,v）及离面（w）变形场进行了定量测量和分析。应用面内变形测量结果，进一步对试件表面的应力一应变分布进行了分析和计算，并在离面变形场的基础上，确立了压痕周围的弹塑性边界，从而进一步应用面内的分析结果，得到材料的屈服强度。应用压痕实验的接触半径和压力并配合Tabor经验公式，本文进一步得到了材料的应力应变曲线。实验结果与已知的IN783合金相吻合。对所涉及的一系列压痕实验，本文也进行了二维有限元分析并得到了比较一致的结果。     

Membrane Curvatures and Stress-strain Full Fields of Axisymmetric Bulge Tests from 3D-DIC Measurements. Theory and Validation on Virtual and Experimental results

The bulge test is mostly used to analyze equibiaxial tensile stress state at the pole of inflated isotropic membranes. Three-dimensional digital image correlation (3D-DIC) technique allows the determination of three-dimensional surface displacements and strain fields. In this paper, a method is proposed to determine also the membrane stress tensor fields for in-plane isotropic materials, independently of any constitutive equation. Stress-strain state is then known at any surface point which enriches greatly experimental data deduced from the axisymmetric bulge tests. Our method consists, first in calculating from the 3D-DIC experimental data the membrane curvature tensor at each surface point of the bulge specimen. Then, curvature tensor fields are used to investigate axisymmetry of the test. Finally in the axisymmetric case, membrane stress tensor fields are determined from meridional and circumferential curvatures combined with the measurement of the inflating pressure. Our method is first validated for virtual 3D-DIC data, obtained by numerical simulation of a bulge test using a hyperelastic material model. Afterward, the method is applied to an experimental bulge test performed using as material a silicone elastomer. The stress-strain fields which are obtained using the proposed method are compared with results of the finite element simulation of this overall bulge test using a neo-Hookean model fitted on uniaxial and equibiaxial tensile tests.     

Blind-hole residual stress determination using optical interferometry

The in-plane method and the out-of-plane method are used to analyze blind-hole residual stress as measured by optical interferometry. The in-plane method, which constructs a relation between the in-plane displacement field and the residual stress released from blind-hole drilling, is applicable when the sensitivity vector of the interferometer used in the measuring system is parallel to the object surface. Three in-plane displacements obtained from one interference pattern are sufficient to determine the residual stress. The out-of-plane method, which establishes a new relation between the out-of-plane displacement field and the released residual stress, is suggested when the sensitivity vector is perpendicular to the object surface. Two relative out-of-plane displacements extracted from one interference pattern are sufficient to determine the residual stress. With the adoption of these two methods, interpolating calculation is not needed to determine the fringe order of each data point, since the selections of the required data points are flexible using these two methods. Two experiments, one for the in-plane method and the other for the out-of-plane method, were carried out to illustrate the applicability and usefulness of these two methods.     

A Projected Finite Element Update Method for Inverse Identification of Material Constitutive Parameters in transversely Isotropic Laminates

In this paper, a novel application of Finite Element Update Method (FEUM) is proposed for the inverse identification of material constitutive parameters in transversely isotropic laminates. Two-dimensional Digital Image Correlation (2D–DIC) is used for full-field measurements which is required for the identification process. Instead of measuring the in-plane displacements, which is a well-known application of 2D–DIC, we seek to measure the pseudo-displacements resulting from out-of-plane (towards camera) deflection of plate under a point load. These pseudo-displacements are basically the perspective projection of the three dimensional displacement fields on the image-plane of the image acquisition system. The cost function in this method is defined in terms of these projections instead of the true displacements – and hence the name Projected Finite Element Update Method (PFEUM). In this article, identification of in-plane elastic moduli of Carbon Fiber Reinforced Plastic (CFRP) plate has been performed using plate bending experiments which show pre-dominantly out-of-plane deflection with little contribution from the in-plane displacements. Identification results are validated by direct experimental measurements of the unknown elastic constants as well as theoretical estimates based on volume ratio of constituents. The results show good conformance between estimated and target values for at least three material parameters namely E₁, E₂ and G₁₂. Effects of experimental noise on parameter estimates has also been evaluated to explain the observed deviation in estimated parameters with current test configuration.     

使用单彩色相机的单相机三维数字图像相关方法

介绍了一种基于单个彩色相机的新型全靶面、单相机三维数字图像相关(3D-DIC)方法。借助于设计巧妙的颜色分光光路,被测物体表面图像可以通过两条不同的光路达到相机靶面,采集的标定靶和实验件表面的彩色图像可以分离得到蓝色和红色子图像。通过使用3D-DIC分析标定靶和实验件表面分离后的蓝色和红色子图像,可以获得物体表面的三维形貌和变形。形貌测量、面内和离面平移、以及静动态三维变形实验验证了该单彩色相机3D-DIC方法的有效性和测量精准度。由于可避免双相机同步,且能实现无分辨率损失的全靶面三维形貌和变形测量,本文方法在需要实现瞬态位移和变形测量的爆炸、冲击、振动等领域中具有广阔重要的应用前景。     

微尺度位移、形貌测量系统及应用

研制了一套可应用于MEMS器件的微尺度测量系统，可以在受载状态下实时检测MEMS器件的面内位移、离面位移和三维形貌。该系统中，面内位移测量是一个基于白光数字散斑相关方法的显微光学测量系统，与相应的力学加载系统结合，可以得到MEMS器件在受载状态下的实时面内位移；离面位移和三维形貌测量则是一个基于相移显微投影光栅方法的光学测量系统，与相应的力学加载系统结合，可以得到MEMS器件在受载状态下的实时三维形貌和离面位移。最后给出了几个典型的MEMS器件面内位移、离面位移和三维形貌的实测结果。     

多相机3D-DIC及其在高温变形测量中的应用

将基于双目视觉的三维数字图像相关方法 (Three-dimension digital image correlation,3D-DIC)与多相机同步采集系统相结合,形成基于多相机的3D-DIC系统。依据三维空间误差(Three-dimensional residual,3Dresidual)最小原则,确定各点对应的最佳双目视觉系统,获得物体全场三维变形。以四相机3D-DIC系统为例,与测量精度达10~20nm的电子散斑干涉测量系统同时对平板的离面位移进行测量,并对测量得到的离面位移最大值进行了对比分析。结果显示,荷载较小时,四相机3D-DIC与电子散斑干涉测量系统误差稍大,最大达到2.7%;荷载增大,物体变形增大时,两种测量系统结果基本相同。文中讨论了四相机测量系统的不稳定对实验结果的影响。利用该四相机3D-DIC系统对镍合金不锈钢材料在高温场中的变形进行测量,获得了物体的三维变形场,并分析了材料的膨胀系数,得到了试件的热应变-温度曲线和膨胀系数随温度变化的关系式。     

高速3D-DIC测试技术在装甲钢贯穿试验中的应用

数字图像相关（digital image correlation, DIC）技术作为一种非接触、非干涉的全场无损光学量测技术,可获取材料表面的动态变形信息和破坏过程。为了评估装甲钢的抗弹性能并探索高速三维数字图像相关（3D-DIC）技术在钢板贯穿试验测试中的应用,基于氢氧爆轰驱动弹道枪开展了7发15 mm口径可变形弹体以不同速度（255～568 m/s）冲击不同厚度（5、8和10 mm）高强高硬装甲钢板的试验,并结合帧率为144 000 s?1的高速3D-DIC测试技术获取了靶板的离面位移和应变时程。随后,基于前期标定并验证的装甲钢本构模型参数,对上述试验进行了数值模拟。通过对比弹体残余速度和长度验证了有限元分析方法的可靠性。进一步通过对比试验与数值模拟得到的靶背离面位移时程曲线和不同时刻靶背的应变云图,验证了高速3D-DIC测试结果的准确性。最后,对比分析了靶板最大离面位移与弹体冲击速度和装甲钢板厚度的关系。高速3D-DIC测试技术的应用可为相关试验测试提供参考,靶板最大离面位移分析结果可为屏障类防护结构的分析验证和优化设计提供试验依据。     

二维数字图像相关测量中离面位移引起的误差分析

二维数字图像相关方法作为一种非接触全场变形测量的光学方法,在工程上有着广泛的应用.由于其假设物体只发生面内位移,而实验中往往存在离面位移,从而引起测量误差.本文针对这一问题利用了针孔模型,从理论上分析了离面位移对普通镜头测量结果的影响,通过铝块平移实验验证了理论分析的正确性.利用提出的理论模型修正橡胶材料的变形测量结果,并与远心镜头测量结果进行对比,发现修正后的普通镜头测量的结果更接近远心镜头测量的结果.最后,本文根据理论分析和实验验证,给出了减小或消除离面位移造成误差的方法.     

Nonlinear Oscillations of a Nonresonant Cable under In-Plane Excitation with a Longitudinal Control

The nonlinear oscillations of a controlled suspended elastic cable under in-plane excitation are considered. Active control realized by longitudinal displacement of one support is introduced in order to reduce the transverse in-plane and out-of-plane vibrations. Linear and quadratic enhanced velocity feedback control laws are chosen and their effects on the cable motion are investigated using a two degree-of-freedom model. Perturbation analysis is performed to determine the in-plane steady-state solutions and their stability under an out-of-plane disturbance. The analysis is extended to the bifurcated two-mode steady-state oscillations in the region of parametric excitation. The dependence of the control effectiveness on the system parameters is investigated in the case of the first symmetric mode and the range of oscillation amplitudes in which the proposed control ensures a dissipation of energy is determined. Although control based only on in-plane response quantities is effective in reducing oscillations with a prevailing in-plane component, addition of out-of-plane measures has to be considered when the motion is characterized by two comparable components.     

Calibrating a J2 plasticity material model using a 2D inverse finite element procedure

Material models are the key ingredients to accurately capture the global mechanical response of structural systems. The use of finite element analysis has proven to be effective in simulating nonlinear engineering applications. However, the choice of the appropriate material model plays a big role in the value of the numerical predictions. Such models are not expected to exactly reproduce global experimental response in all cases. Alternatively, the measured global response at specific domain or surface points can be used to guide the nonlinear analysis to successively extract a representative material model. By selecting an initial set of stress–strain data points, the load–displacement response at the monitoring points is computed in a forward incremental analysis without iterations. This analysis retains the stresses at the integration points. The corresponding strains are not accurate since the computed displacements are not anticipated to match the measured displacements at the monitoring points. Therefore, a corrective incremental displacement analysis is performed at the same load steps to adjust for displacements and strains everywhere by matching the measured displacements at the monitoring points. The stress–strain vectors at the most highly stressed integration point are found to establish an improved material model. This model is used within a multi-pass incremental nonlinear finite element analysis until the discrepancy between the measured and the predicted structural response at the monitoring points vanishes. The J2 flow theory of plasticity is used as a constitutive framework to build the tangent elastic–plastic matrices. The applicability of the proposed approach is demonstrated by solving 2D inverse continuum problems. The comparisons presented support the effectiveness of the proposed approach in accurately calibrating the J2 plasticity material model for such problems.     

Displacement and strain measurement with automated grid methods

An image-processing-based automated grid method is investigated to determine the method's displacement and strain accuracy limits, and how these limits are influenced by the choice of camera-calibration models. A CCD camera and a PC-based frame grabber are used to record grid spot motion, then ordering and centroiding are used to identify each spot and calculate their individual displacements. The displacements are fitted with a moving biquadratic surface, and the strains are obtained by analytical differentiation of that surface. Camera-calibration models which are considered include various combinations of image-perspective transformation, image stretching, and elliptical-lens distortion. The strain and displacement accuracy are explored through rigid-body motion and uniaxial tension tests. In the process, sensitivity to in-plane and out-of-plane rigid-body translation, and extreme sensitivity to in-plane rigid-body rotation (for non-synchronized frame grabbers) are confirmed. It is found that under the best conditions the displacement accuracy is 015 pixels and that the strain accuracy is 120 microstrain. Finally, the automated grid method is used to investigate the strains developed in an aluminum perforated strip subjected to uniaxial tension.     

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提出了用超声散斑干涉法来测量物体的位移,并且基于数字干涉和相移-频移技术对超 声散斑数字干涉测量法进行了初步的理论推导. 为了验证理论分析的结果,对一铝试件进行 了离面位移和面内位移的试验测量. 试验结果显示理论分析是正确的,在测量位移和变形时 此方法是有效可行的.     

Phase-stepped fractional moiré

Two computer-aided methods have been developed for analysis of in-plane and out-of-plane surface displacements of structures under load. Both methods are whole-field techniques which combine phase-stepped geometric moire with video and computer technologies. With these methods, a displacement field of interest is determined by computer-processing phase stepped, geometric moiré image data with fringe ordering done automatically within the software. The theory of the techniques is described and results of accuracy tests and application problems are given. It is shown that very good agreement is obtained between theory and experiment for in-plane strain determinations. For out-of-plane displacement determinations errors are only a few percent over the entire field of view. The application problems discussed are: (1) the measurement of composite column buckling, and (2) the determination of the shape of a slightly distorted, thin aluminum plate.Paper was presented at the 1991 SEM Spring Conference on Experimental Mechanics held in Milwaukee, WI on June 9–13.     

Three-dimensional crack tip deformation measurement using combined Moiré-Sagnac interferometry

A combined Moiré-Sagnac interferometry method is developed for in-plane (u andv) and out-of-plane (w) surface deformation measurement. The combined optical setup is used to measure three-dimensional crack tip deformations of AI 2024-0 and AI 2024-T4 specimens at room temperature and an inconel 909 specimen at 570°C. Measured displacements near the crack tip region of the AI 2024-T4 specimen are used as input nodal displacements to determine stress intensity factors based on two-dimensional and three-dimensional Jacobian derivative method. The values compare favorably with theoretical calculations. The extent of the three-dimensional crack tip deformation zone is also discussed.     

Interferometric strain/slope rosette for static and dynamic measurements

The interferometric strain/slope rosette (ISSR) is extended from the interferometric strain gage (ISG) and the interferometric strain rosette (ISR) for measuring three derivatives of out-of-plane displacements in addition to three derivatives of in-plane displacements. The ISSR can be used for both static and dynamic measurements. The principle of the measurement is a combination of diffraction and interference of laser beams. The miniature ISSR is applicable to complex geometries that are unaccessible to conventional sensors. As six displacement derivatives are measured, components of a strain tensor and rotation can be determined. The principle and image-processing system are described. Sensitivities to rigid-body translations are thoroughly studied. The technique is noncontacting, in contrast to resistance strain gages and accelerometers, which require attachment of transducers to specimen surfaces.     

Planar and non-planar non-linear dynamics of suspended cables under random in-plane loading-I. Single internal resonance

The non-linear interaction of the in-plane and out-of-plane motions of a suspended cable in the neighbourhood of 2:1 internal resonance under random loading is studied. The random loading acts externally on the in-plane mode, while the out-of-plane mode is non-linearly coupled with the in-plane mode. Any non-trivial motion of the out-of-plane mode is mainly due to this non-linear coupling, which becomes significant in the neighbourhood of internal resonance. The response statistics are estimated by employing the Fokker-Planck equation together with Gaussian and non-Gaussian closures. Monte-Carlo simulation is also used for numerical verification. Away from the internal resonance condition, the response is governed by the inplane motion, and the non-Gaussian closure solution is found to be in good agreement with numerical simulation results. The stochastic bifurcation of the out-of-plane mode is predicted by Gaussian and non-Gaussian closures, and by Monte-Carlo simulation. The non-Gaussian closure can only predict bounded solutions within a limited region. The on-off intermittency of the second mode is observed in the Monte-Carlo simulation over a small range of excitation level. The influence on response statistics of excitation level and cable parameters, such as internal detuning, damping ratios, and sag-to-span ratio, is reported.     

A Transparent Indenter Measurement Method for Mechanical Property Evaluation

An optical Transparent Indenter Measurement (TIM) method was developed for measurement of material surface mechanical properties. During the spherical indentation test, in-situ measurements of indentation-induced surface out-of-plane displacements were obtained using an integrated phase-shifting Twyman-Green interferometer. Based on elastic recovery theory and 2D finite element analyses, a procedure was developed to determine the material Young's modulus using the measured surface out-of-plane displacements. During the spherical indentation test, contact radii were also measured and used to estimate the material post-yielding true stress-strain curve using Tabor's empirical relation. An experimental TIM apparatus was assembled to test on two engineering alloys and the results showed good agreement with known material properties.