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A white light speckle method applied to the determination of stress intensity factor and displacement field around a crack tip

✍ Scribed by F.P. Chiang; A. Asundi


Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
1981
Tongue
English
Weight
500 KB
Volume
15
Category
Article
ISSN
0013-7944

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✦ Synopsis


A new method is developed for the measurement of displacement field around cracks by using the so-called white light speckles. By spraying the specimen surface with a layer of white paint and then a layer of black paint, a fine pattern of random speckles are developed under the observation of a microscope. These speckles are photographed by double exposure before and after the application of load. The resulting specklegram is then optical--Fourier transformed to yield displacement information in terms of Young's fringes, or isothetics. A double cantilever beam is used as an example to demonstrate the technique. Displacement field and stress intensity factor around the crack tip are obtained and compared with known data.