Strain field measurements in industrial applications using dual-beam digital speckle photography

Dual-beam digital speckle photography is a non-contacting full-field technique which can measure one strain component at the CCD-camera frequency. The technique uses two symmetrically incident laser beams of different wavelengths and the speckle field for each illumination beam is recorded simultaneously before and after object deformation. The system is designed for strain field measurements in rough environments. In this paper some experiments are performed to investigate the system performance. In a tensile test the measured strain value was found to be in good agreement with the strain given by resistance strain gauges. Experiments at elevated temperature have also been performed, where thermal strain fields were measured at 500°C.     

Microscopic 3-D displacement field measurements using digital speckle photography

A technique to measure object shape and 3-D displacement fields in micro-scale is offered by microscopic stereo digital speckle photography. The displacement of the random features that are often present on many engineering surfaces when viewed in a microscope is measured with the system, using image correlation. In this paper the equipment, physical model and calibration routines are described. The technique can be applied for sub-mm sized objects of arbitrary shape for small deformation fields. As a verifying experiment, an in-plane rotation of a flat calibration plate is presented. The expected in-plane errors are shown to be less than 0.1 μm and the corresponding out-of-plane errors about three times larger. As a pilot experiment, micro-structural paper expansion is studied, when exposed to humidity. The scaling properties of the microscope as well as the sampling criteria and reliability of the system are discussed in detail.     

A stereoscopic digital speckle photography system for 3-D displacement field measurements

Stereoscopic digital speckle photography offers a technique to measure object shapes and 3-D displacement fields in experimental mechanics. The system measures the displacement of a random white light speckle pattern, which somehow is present on the object surface, using digital correlation. This paper describes a general physical model for stereo imaging systems. A camera calibration algorithm, which takes the distortion in the lenses into account, is also presented and evaluated by real experiments. Standard deviations of small deformations as low as 1% of the pixel size for in-plane deformations and 6% of the pixel size for the out-of-plane component are reported. Using the calibration algorithm described, the main source of errors is random errors originating from the correlation algorithm.     

Super-resolution digital speckle photography for micro/nano measurements

Speckle photography, also referred to as one-beam speckle interferometry, has gone through several evolutions. It started as laser speckle photography and then white light speckle photography and recently the electron speckle photography. With the advent of CCD and computational power of PC, the process of recording also changed from optical (i.e., photographic) to digital. This paper presents some recent development of super-resolution digital speckle photography with the emphasis on micro/nano measurements.     

立体摄影术与数字散斑相关方法相结合用于研究三维变形场

采用立体摄影术与数字图像相关技术相结合的方法测量了三维位移场。首先利用两个CCD摄像机在空间两个不同位置拍摄物体表面在变形前后同一个区域之间的散斑图像;然后利用数字散斑相关技术求解这四幅散斑图像之间的相对位移;最后利用立体摄影的几何转换公式来确定物体表面的三维变形场。给出了该立体摄影测试系统的标定结果以及编织复合材料试件的三维变形测量结果。     

白光数字散斑照像术

本文提出一种新的数字散斑计量术——白光数字散斑照像术.它以两维数字偏心滤波技术实现全场信息的表征,而以数字相关技术实现点信息的表征.文中给出了计量方法、理论分析及实验结果.     

Velocity and density field measurements by digital speckle method

Velocity and density field measurements based on image processing of laser speckle or pseudo-speckle pattern have been developed. Laser speckle velocimetry (LSV) or white-light speckle velocimetry (WSV), which corresponds to a high-image-density PIV, gives a local velocity vector map or whole field velocity contour map of a two-dimensional flow field seeded densely with fine particles. This technique has an advantage in high-speed flow measurement without limit of frame rate except for directional ambiguity. New techniques of laser speckle photography and laser speckle interferometry by means of digital image processing have been developed recently for density field measurements. In laser speckle photography, a local density gradient vector map is reconstructed by cross-correlation evaluation between the reference and the object speckle patterns. In laser speckle interferometry, an equi-density contour map is reconstructed by image subtraction between the reference and the object interferometric speckle patterns.     

Thermoplastic photographic material for vibration measurements by speckle photography

In order to measure vibration amplitudes by speckle photography in quasi real-time, the feasibility of using thermoplastic photographic material for recording a speckle pattern image is studied experimentally to be proved true. An optimum recording condition of the material is also obtained.     

用数字滤波消除散斑条纹图噪声

本文讨论了散斑摄影条纹图的噪声来源及模型,设计合适的数字滤波器.采取正交实验手段,全面分析了噪声、条纹对比度和密度对条纹方向及间距测量精度的影响.     

Speckle photography combined with speckle interferometry

By combining speckle interferometry (SI) measurements with speckle photography, the fringe visibility can be kept high despite the presence of a large bulk or rotating motion of the object. This combined technique improves the usability and measuring range of both pulsed and phase-stepped SI-methods. This paper reviews the theory of fringe formation in SI and shows some recent applications of this combined technique.     

基于数字散斑照相术测量刚体面内位移

数字散斑照相术通常测量刚体的面内位移。从基本原理着手,研究了基于散斑照相术的两种常用方法,即数字图像相关法和傅里叶变换法。论述了数字图像相关法中的亚像素梯度算法,讨论了如何选择子区的大小,优化测量结果;傅里叶变换法通过对散斑图进行傅里叶变换和数学形态学等一系列操作,获得精确的条纹间距,从而更好地计算面内位移。实验结果表明,傅里叶变换法的测量精度要高于数字图像相关法。     

Digital speckle correlation method with compensation technique for strain field measurements

In the strain field measurements, especially in large strain field measurements, the correlation coefficient values obtained by the digital speckle correlation method are usually very low due to the relative pixel movement of the subset. The measuring error, therefore, is increased. A primary method, that is called compensation algorithm, is introduced for improving the correlation coefficient. A flow scheme with the compensation algorithm of our software is developed and some improved techniques for reducing the calculation time and error are discussed in the paper. After obtaining a set of displacement data with high correlation coefficient, a de-noise wavelet processing is adopted. It is obvious that the measuring accuracy of the strain field is better then before. A strain field of testing experiment is performed with this compensation technique. The correlation coefficients can increase from 0.70 to 0.99, which will be of much benefit for the improvements of the measuring accuracy.     

Velocity contours by speckle photography

We describe a method of generating velocity contours of an object using speckle photography. The object is illuminated by a series of laser pulses following each other at equal intervals. A speckle record of the object is observed in a spatial filtering setup with a small aperture in the frequency plane. A fringe pattern representing a map of velocity contours is obtained in the output plane.     

激光散斑摄影术实验

将激光散斑摄影术设计成一个近代物理实验,用于测试位相物体的厚度。这一方法概念新颖、光路设计简便易行,且具有实用价值。在改造和创新近代物理实验方面,这是可取的,本文介绍相关的实验原理、光路设计及其实验内容。     

Measurement of dynamic crack tip displacement field by speckle photography and interferometry

Speckle interferometry has been used to measure the transient displacement field around a crack due to stress wave loading. Double exposure interferograms are recorded with a pulsed ruby laser, and correlation fringes formed by spatial filtering of the developed film. A new technique is presented for reducing the noise level in spatially filtered speckle interferograms. Independent fringe patterns, obtained from one interferogram but with the filtering aperture sampling different regions of the Fourier transform plane, are digitised by a CCD camera and combined numerically. It is demonstrated that accurate analysis of fringe patterns by the Fourier transform method can be carried out, even if no carrier fringes are present. The measurements are compared with those obtained by speckle photography. Least-squares fitting of the theoretical displacement field is used to calculate the stress intensity factor at the crack tip as a function of time.     

Digital speckle photography and speckle tomography in heat transfer studies

The line-of-sight speckle photography of transparent media is used for quantitative measurements of the instantaneous temperature fields in 3D unsteady flows. Both electronic and photographic methods are employed for specklegram recording. The subsequent specklegram treatment uses the Young's fringes method as well as cross-correlation analysis of small interrogation areas of the recordings. Experimental data for three different heat transfer configurations are obtained and discussed. The first one is natural convection over extended vertical heated plates with forward facing steps, the second is unsteady 3D convective flow around a suddenly heated vertical thin wire, and the third one is a convective plume above a multi-jet flame. Both local and global Nusselt numbers are determined via measuring local surface temperature gradients for these convective flows. The results are compared with Ostrach's theory for a single vertical plate and with the data obtained by Mach–Zehnder interferometry. The 3D temperature fields are reconstructed for axisymmetric convective flows around a suddenly heated vertical wire using quasi-double projection measurement and the Radon inversion. 3D temperature distributions above the combustion zone are reconstructed using multi-projection speckle photography measurements and computerised tomography.     

Two-dimensional vibrations analysed by speckle photography

Speckle photographs of a laser-illuminated surface vibrating in its own plane give characteristic diffraction spectra. These have been investigated for a surface vibrating sinusoidally along two mutually orthogonal directions with equal amplitudes but differing frequencies. The diffraction patterns obtained are interpreted in terms of the Lissajous figures traced out by each speckle, taking into account the time-of-dwell of a speckle at any point on its trajectory. Results are given for frequency ratios of the two vibrations of 1:1, 2:1, 3:1. 4:1, and for non-integrally related frequencies.     

偏振孔径散斑照相法

本文讨论了偏振片在散斑照相多孔法中的作用,提出了一种新的散斑照相孔径——偏振四孔。     

Measuring velocity of speckle fields with digital speckle pattern interferometry

We investigate a digital method for detecting the velocity of a diffusing object. The technique is based on Digital Speckle Pattern Interferometry (DSPI). A set of reference fringes is generated externally through the reference beam in a digital interferometer. As the object moves, subsequent frames are acquired and subtracted according to the normal DSPI procedure and stored. By means of the theory of first order speckle statistics applied to speckle intensity correlation, we relate the visibility variations in the reference fringes with the object velocity. Thus, by measuring the fringe visibility variation in the resulting DSPI stored frames the mean object velocity can be obtained. The theoretical results are experimentally verified.     

Spectral and temporal speckle field measurements of a random medium

The zero-mean circular complex Gaussian field statistics of a random medium are experimentally demonstrated in the optical domain, thus verifying this key assumption of statistical optics. Using a frequency-tunable laser source in a fixed-path-length interferometer, we obtain optical field fluctuations in the time and frequency domains that clearly show that the ensemble-averaged temporal intensity converges to the photon transit time distribution, which for the samples used is in excellent agreement with a diffusion model.