Multicomponent laser shearography for the investigation of defects in rotating machinery

Roger M. Groves; Stephen W. James; Stuart E. Barnes; Shan Fu; Domenico Furfari; Philip E. Irving; Ralph P. Tatam

doi:10.1117/12.545125

10 September 2004 Multicomponent laser shearography for the investigation of defects in rotating machinery

Roger M. Groves, Stephen W. James, Stuart E. Barnes, Shan Fu, Domenico Furfari, Philip E. Irving, Ralph P. Tatam

Proceedings Volume 5457, Optical Metrology in Production Engineering; (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.545125
Event: Photonics Europe, 2004, Strasbourg, France

Abstract

Shearography is a full-field interferometric optical technique that is usually used for the qualitative investigation of defects in non-destructive testing applications. The optical configuration is sensitive directly to displacement gradient, a parameter closely related to the surface strain. The component of the displacement gradient that is measured is determined by the illumination and viewing directions and by the direction of the applied shear. The sensitivity is governed by the magnitude of applied shear and by the optical wavelength. Full characterisation of the surface strain requires a measurement of six-components of displacement gradient; this is achieved in shearography by forming a number of distinct measurement channels using multiple illumination, or viewing, directions. In this paper the authors discuss the quantitative measurement of the strain field around a fatigue crack, using a time-division-multiplexed diode laser shearography instrument. To investigate moving objects, a pulsed laser provides a method of freezing the object position at two points in the loading cycle. A shearography instrument incorporating two frequency doubled pulsed Nd:YAG lasers, with a common injection seeder is described. The measurement channels are spatially-multiplexed by viewing from four directions using an optical fibre imaging bundle, with optical processing at a remotely located interferometer head. Preliminary experimental measurements are presented.

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Roger M. Groves, Stephen W. James, Stuart E. Barnes, Shan Fu, Domenico Furfari, Philip E. Irving, and Ralph P. Tatam "Multicomponent laser shearography for the investigation of defects in rotating machinery", Proc. SPIE 5457, Optical Metrology in Production Engineering, (10 September 2004); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.545125

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