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NDT Techniques: Laser-based
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NDT Techniques: Laser-based
Figure 4
Example of specimen grid moire! : displacements after
tensile testing of a girth weld on a steel pipeline containing
a defect.
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NDT Techniques: Laser-based
the grating spatial frequency, the contour map can be holographic and speckle developments, and in
viewed as a map of distortion of the specimen grating. Amidror (2000) for moire! techniques.
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surveys are to be found in Jones and Wykes (1998) for P. M. Boone