Use of holographic optical elements in speckle metrology. Part 3: application to fracture mechanics

In this work a two-hololens imaging system has been used to measure crack-mouth opening displacement and crack-tip opening displacement to determine the stress intensity factor K(1), the crack-tip plastic zone size r(p)(*) and the rotational factor r in a beam specimen having the central edge crack subjected to three-point bending using focused plane speckle photography. Experimental results are in good agreement with theoretical predictions. Current experimental investigations establish that low-cost holographic optics can be advantageously used in speckle metrology to solve complex problems of fracture mechanics.