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Objective white-light speckles and their application to stress-intensity factor determination

F P Chiang, A K Asundi

    Optics Letters
    |August 29, 2009
    PubMed
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    A novel white-light speckle technique precisely measures displacement and deformation. This innovation offers significant applications in fracture mechanics research and material analysis.

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