Developments in the optical spatial filtering of superposed crossed gratings

It is shown in this paper how the whole field of displacement components and of their time and space derivatives (isothetics, isotachics and isoparagogics) can be obtained individually, as separate patterns in a simple and precise manner using spatial-filtering techniques. This result can be obtained even when crossed gratings are used on the deformed body. A method for achieving fringe multiplication in moiré patterns produced by superposed, crossed gratings is also demonstrated. It is also shown that displacement components and their time and space derivatives in directions diagonal to the crossed-grating lines can be obtained by proper handling of grating transparencies and spatial-filtering techniques. Hence, the moiré equivalent of a whole field of rosette-strain-gage measurements is obtained from a single photograph of a deformed crossed grating. A disk compressed between two wedges is used as an example. Important applications will be found in the fields of dynamics, nonlinear elasticity and plasticity.