High-magnification moiré interferometer for crack tip analysis of steels

A high-magnification moiré interferometer, particularly suitable for near-tip field analysis in cracked materials, is described. It has a submillimeter field of view, a high-resolution image sensor (1.4 million pixels), X-Y-Z translation stage and an optical fiber light delivery system. These features enable the microscope head to observe the crack tip while the specimen is loaded in a standard tensile test machine. Automated fringe pattern analysis, using temporal phase shifting and spatial phase unwrapping, enables thex ory displacement component to be measured and the corresponding in-plane strain component computed. The displacement placement accuracy is better than 40 nm, and the effective strain gage dimension is ∼ 25 μm. Furthermore, the interferometer has a built-in white light microscope that allows the observation of the specimen granular microstructure in exact registration with the displacement field. The interferometer has hence been employed to investigate the near-tip fields of a precracked stainless steel specimen under load. The influence of the grain boundaries on the measured displacement fields was relatively minor. The near-tip strain field shows a significant asymmetrical behavior despite pure mode lloading conditions.     

Hole-drilling method using grating rosette and Moiré interferometry

The hole-drilling method is one of the most wellknown methods for measuring residual stresses. To identify unknown plane stresses in a specimen, a circular hole is first drilled in the infinite plate under plane stress, then the strains resulting from the hole drilling is measured. The strains may be acquired from interpreting the Moire signature around the hole. In crossed grating Moire interferometry, the horizontal and vertical displacement fields （u and v） can be obtained to determinate two strain fields and one shearing strain field. In this paper, by means of Moire interferometry and three directions grating （grating rosette） developed by the authors, three displacement fields （u, v and s） are obtained to acquire three strain fields. As a practical application, the hole-drilling method is adopted to measure the relief strains for aluminum and fiber reinforced composite. It is a step by step method; in each step a single laminate or equivalent depth is drilled to find some relationships between the drilling depth and the residual strains relieved in the fiber reinforced composite materials.     

Recent advancements of moiré and microscopic moiré interferometry for thermal deformation analyses of microelectronics devices

Moiré and microscopic moiré interferometry are reviewed as they are applied to thermal deformation analyses of microelectronics devices. Applications to diverse problems are illustrated to demonstrate wide applicability of the methods. The whole-field displacement information, with various sensitivity and resolution scales, is ideally suited for the deformation study of a broad range of problems in deformation analyses of microelectronics devices.     

Carrier fringe method of moiré interferometry for tiny strain measurements in micro-field

In this paper, we demonstrate a new optical method for tiny strain measurements based on the principle of carrier fringes of moire interferometry. A cross-line grating with frequency of 1200 lp/mm is replicated on the specimen surface, and the strain can be deduced from the changes in carrier fringes before and after the deformation of an object. Four coherent laser beams are used to obtain the carrier fringe patterns of field U and V. Both theoretical analysis and numerical simulation indicate that the ideal accuracy of strain can be controlled within a range of ±1με. Case study of a plane extension experiment shows that the measurement accuracy of strain can be controlled within the range of ±10με. The average strain values of every row of field U and every column of field V can be obtained by using this method, and approximated strain of every pixel in the whole-field can be further acquired, and thus it is possible to measure tiny strains occurred in a micro-field. The technology in this paper can provide comprehensive information for analyzing related mechanical content in the field of MEMS.     

大体积混凝土等效裂纹断裂模型研究

根据大比尺混凝土紧凑拉伸与楔入劈拉试验成果,将裂纹在稳定扩展中断裂有程区应力分布与相应的变形（张开度ω）联系起来,通过“归一化”处理,得到了大体积混凝土断裂过程区长度的解析表达式,建立了大体积混凝土Ⅰ型断裂破坏的等效裂纹断裂模型。     

Study on fracture behavior of ferroelectric ceramics under combined electromechanical loading by using a moiré interferometry technique

This paper discusses an in situ observation of fracture behavior around a crack tip in ferroelectric ceramics under combined electromechanical loading by use of a moiré interferometry technique. The deformation field induced by the electric field and the stress concentration near the crack tip in three-points bending experiments was measured. By analysis of the moiré images it is found that under a constant mechanical load, the electric field almost has no effect on the crack extension in the case that the directions of the poling, electric field and crack extension are perpendicular to each other. When the poling direction is parallel to the crack extension direction and perpendicular to the electric field, the strain decreases faster than that calculated by FEM with and without electrical loading as one goes away from the crack tip. In addition, as the electric field intensity increases, the strain near the crack tip increases, and the strain concentration becomes more significant. The project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (10132010, 10025209, 10232023)     

Cure-dependent Viscoelastic Poisson’s Ratio of Epoxy

The evolution of the lateral contraction ratio of two commercial (high and low temperature cure) epoxy resins is studied in uniaxial tension using moiré interferometry. The ratio of transverse to axial strains evolves from an elastic value of about 0.40 to a rubbery plateau value of 0.49 at long times. Furthermore, the data indicate that the contraction ratio follows time-temperature superposition with a shift function indistinguishable from other axial viscoelastic functions. The lateral contraction behavior at several cure states past gelation was measured and a model is proposed to describe the cure dependence.     

基于扩展有限元的地质聚合物混凝土断裂过程研究

扩展有限元法是基于常规有限元框架分析裂纹等不连续力学问题的一种有效数值方法,在常规的有限元位移表达式中,增加了能够反映位移不连续性的跳跃函数和渐进缝尖位移场函数来对不连续结构附近的节点自由度进行局部加强。本文介绍了扩展有限元法及粘聚力模型的基本原理,给出了基于扩展有限元法的地质聚合物混凝土断裂过程分析方法。分别采用四种不同的软化曲线对I型缺口地质聚合物混凝土梁从裂纹萌生、扩展直至断裂破坏的全过程进行了模拟,并基于双K断裂准则分析了其断裂韧性。结果表明,Petersson模型与试验结果吻合较好,最后基于模拟结果进一步揭示了断裂过程区的演化过程。     

Study on Deformation of Polycrystalline Aluminum Alloy Using Moiré Interferometry

Polycrystalline aluminum alloy is manufactured by annealing, compared to the width of the specimen, the size of the grains can not be omitted, which makes the specimen anisotropic. Under uniaxial tension, the deformation field is inhomogeneous. In this study, moiré interferometry is successfully applied to measure the deformation of the polycrystalline specimen. The experimental results presented the stress versus strain responses of the marked grains in different orientations and different shapes. By using fringe centering method, the strain distributions under certain load in the centers and on the boundaries of the grains are analyzed.     

Phase-stepped ESPI and moiré interferometry for measuring stress-intensity factor andJ integral

Electronic-speckle-pattern interferometry and moiré interferometry have been used to calculateK ₁ andJ for compact tension specimens. Automated-fringe-pattern analysis enables the full-field of data to be used with the minimum of operator intervention. Measurements are shown to be accurate to within 10 percent. TheJ-measurement procedure employed could form the basis of an automatic-fault detection system.     

Using moiré interferometry and boundary integral hybrid method to determine mixed-mode stress intensity factor

The paper describes a hybrid experimental and numerical method of Moiré Interferometry and the boundary-integral-element method. The interference patterns used for the evaluation of the displacement vector are obtained by Moiré Interferometry. The boundary displacements obtained experimentally are conveniently used for the calculation of the stress intensity factor in the body by the boundary-integral-method. Some examples bear witness to the effectiveness and accuracy of the hybrid technique. Project is supported by the Science Fundation of the State Education Commission of China.     

铰孔和疲劳对冷挤压孔周残余应力的影响

应用干涉云纹测量了冷胀孔周残余应力分布，并用实验方法研究了铰孔和疲劳对残余应力的影响。介绍了测试技术和原理，提供了典型的实验结果，并讨论了误差原因     

Measurement of Deformation and Strain in Nitinol

Phase shifted moiré interferometry is used to measure full-field strains during uniaxial tension and four-point bend loading of nitinol test samples. Optical resolution and grating coherence were exceptional and allowed simultaneous resolution of the strain fields within both the parent and transformed phases of the material. Evidence of localized and uniformly distributed phase transformation was observed for the samples tested in uniaxial tension while the bending results indicate a clear tension/compression asymmetry. The results further highlight the effect of the elasticity of the two phases and the complexity associated with competing martensite and R-phase transformations on the thermomechanical behavior of nitinol. Finally, the technique is applied to a nitinol implantable medical component to demonstrate the opportunities for improved end-use material characterization, numerical modeling and design validation.     

Automatic Full Strain Field Moiré Interferometry Measurement with Nano-scale Resolution

Moiré Interferometry (MI) theoretically can provide real-time full strain field measurements in dynamic environment. So it’s extensively used in reliability analysis of electronic packaging. Due to the nature of specimen preparations procedure, the optical noise is usually too strong so that an accurate phase-based information processing is not possible. In this paper, a 164 nm/pixel spatial resolution Moiré Interferometer with automated full strain field calculation is proposed. Provided by two-level zooming system, the high spatial resolution increase the signal intensity and eliminate some optical noise which allows accurate full strain field map generated automatically by the combination of phase shifting technique and continuous wavelet transform (CWT). Furthermore, the calculation procedure of CWT proposed here does not require unwrapping and differentiation, which avoid the possible numerical noise introduced in these two steps. In the proposed system, pixel by pixel in-plane strain tensors will be calculate from the intensity map of interferograms using phase-based method. The resulting strain tensor can be used to model constitutive relationship or compare with finite element analysis results. A thermal experiment on BGA packaging is used to demonstrate the advantages of the proposed new design.     

疲劳过程中的能量耗散和疲劳寿命的预测

试验测量了A3钢和铝合金LY12CZ在疲劳过程中的耗散能密度与应力幅的关系和破坏时的临界累积耗散能密度。通过一系列不同加载频率和应力比的比较试验,结果表明耗散能密度与应力幅的关系和临界累积耗散能密度在不同加载频率下变化不大,但是受应力比的影响较大。本文还建立了临界累积耗散能密度疲劳寿命预测判据,并用此判据进行了带中心孔板条构件的疲劳寿命预测,取得了较好的结果（误差在25％以内）。这种方法对于构件局部的疲劳主要由一个方向应力控制的工程问题,使用简便有效。     

Model of the fracture process zone at the tip of a crack reaching the nonsmooth interface between elastic media

The paper is concerned with the fracture process zone at the tip of a crack at the nonsmooth interface between isotropic elastic media. A plane symmetric problem is formulated. The zone is modeled by lines of discontinuity of the normal displacement at the interface. The exact solution of the elastic problem is found by the Wiener-Hopf method Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika, Vol. 44, No. 10, pp. 13–22, October 2008.     

焊接接头材质和力学非均匀体低周疲劳特性研究

焊接接头是由母材区、热影响区和焊缝组成的材质和力学性质非均匀体,与均匀材料相比,有关非均匀体低周疲劳特性的研究还相当少,许多问题尚未完全搞清.本文通过16MnR压力容器用钢焊接接头的应变控制低周疲劳试验,采用宏观试验与微观分析相结合的方法,考虑了焊接接头材质和力学非均匀性的影响,对其疲劳特性进行了较为深入的研究,得出一些新的十分有意义的结论.     

Fatigue crack-tip deformation,crack growth and life prediction in polycarbonate

Low-cycle fatigue fracture of polycarbonate is investigated. Local strain in the vicinity of the notch root and crack tip has been measured in real time by using a fine-grid method. The relationships among the local strain, crack initiation from the notch root and crack propagation of the crack tip are studied, and a method for more precise life estimation is suggested. Paper was presented at the 1992 SEM Spring Conference on Experimental Mechanics held in Las Vegas, NV on June 8–11.     

混凝土黏聚开裂模型若干进展

黏聚模型是用来描述混凝土断裂行为的基本模型, 首先介绍了混凝土的黏聚开裂模型的基本概念,总结了确定黏聚区的本构方程的各种方法,即直接单轴拉伸测试、J积分方法、R曲线法、柔度法和逆推法.然后介绍了黏聚模型在I型和复合型裂纹问题、疲劳断裂问题中的应用以及黏聚模型与混凝土尺寸效应的关系.最后对黏聚开裂模型与桥联模型、带状裂缝模型进行了比较和总结, 指出了该模型存在的问题, 并对其以后的发展方向提出了建议.      

三维计算断裂力学

断裂力学理论从1921年Griffith研究玻璃的脆性断裂问题开始,经历了从线弹性体系到弹塑性以及蠕变理论体系、从单参数到多参数体系和从理想的二维平面理论到实际三维含裂纹结构的三维断裂理论的发展历程。针对应力强度因子K和J积分以及C(t)积分的计算方法从理想化模型的理论计算发展到实际复杂工程结构裂纹体计算的各种商业软件平台以及专业的断裂理论分析平台。尤其是随着计算机技术的发展,对三维含裂结构的静态和扩展裂纹的计算模拟已经能够融入计算机辅助设计。结合本研究组近30年来在三维疲劳断裂理论和应用研究方面的体会,简述了三维计算断裂力学从裂纹体应力应变分析和断裂参数计算到三维蠕变断裂和疲劳裂纹扩展模拟的国内外进展,并对涉及的计算方法,包括原子尺度和跨尺度的计算模拟,以及目前面临的挑战性问题作了简要介绍和分析。