Abstract
Moiré techniques were developed, adapted and applied to the determination of strain fields in filamentary composite laminates. Conventional techniques, using 1000 line-per-inch (Ipi) arrays bonded or photoprinted onto the specimen, were applied to glass-epoxy and boron-epoxy specimens with holes and cracks. Techniques for tenfold fringe multiplication were also applied to glass-epoxy and boron-epoxy laminates with holes. A reflective surface of glass-like smoothness was produced on the specimen and a 500 dot-per-inch grid photoprinted on it. A rigid distortion-free camera was used for recording replicas of the specimen grid by projection photography. These replicas were analyzed with a 200 line-per-millimeter (5080 Ipi) grating for reconstruction of moiré-fringe patterns. These patterns were analyzed by graphical and mechanical differentiation using second-order moiré. Strain distributions and strain-concentration factors were in very good agreement with theoretical and other experimental results.
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Daniel, I.M., Rowlands, R.E. & Post, D. Strain analysis of composites by moiré methods. Experimental Mechanics 13, 246–252 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02322621
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