Optical Methods for Solid Mechanics
A Full-Field Approach
1. Edition June 2012
XIV, 432 Pages, Softcover
190 Pictures (10 Colored Figures)
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Written in a tutorial style, this is a step-by-step approach to the background needed for understanding a wide range of full-field optical measurement techniques in solid mechanics, including the basics of imaging and image processing, as well as solved and unsolved problems.
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Unique within the field for being written in a tutorial style, this textbook adopts a step-by-step approach to the background needed for understanding a wide range of full-field optical measurement techniques in solid mechanics.
This method familiarizes readers with the essentials of imaging and full-field optical measurement techniques, helping them to identify the appropriate techniques and in assessing measurement systems. In addition, readers learn the appropriate rules of thumb as a guide to better experimental performance from the applied techniques.
Rather than presenting an exhaustive overview on the subject, each chapter provides a concise introduction to the concepts and principles, integrates solved problems within the text, summarizes the essence at the end, and includes unsolved problems.
With its coverage of topics also relevant for industry, this text is aimed at graduate students, researchers, and engineers involved in non-destructive testing for acoustics, mechanics, medicine, diagnosis on artwork and construction, and civil engineering.
2. Electronic Image Sensing and Processing
3. Phase Decoding and Reconstruction
4. Experimental Stress Analysis: An Overview
5. Digital Image Correlation
6. Rough Surface Interferometry
7. Fringe Projection Profilometry
8. Thermoelastic Stress Analysis
9. Photoelasticity
Erwin Hack holds a diploma in theoretical physics and a Ph.D. in physical chemistry, both from the University of Zurich, Switzerland. Since 1998, he is deputy laboratory head at Empa, the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology. His research interest is in full-field optical measurement techniques including speckle interferometry and thermography. He coordinated and participated in European research projects on optical techniques. Dr. Hack regularly publishes in peer-reviewed journals and conferences. He lectures at ETH Zurich on optical methods in experimental mechanics. He is a member of VAMAS TWA26 on full field optical stress and strain measurement, vice-president of the Swiss Society for Non-destructive Testing, and a member of EOS and OSA.