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ABSTRACT—A general form used for analyzing residual celed the in-plane displacement field by adding the fringe
stresses measured using the holographic blind-hole method orders of two diametrically opposite points. Three relative
is introduced in this paper. Adopting the general form pre- out-of-plane displacements deduced from a single interfer-
sented, the residual stresses can be obtained using three ence fringe pattern were sufficient to determine the residual
relative displacements measured from a single interference stresses. The second one was similar to that proposed by
fringe pattern. Even for the case in which phase-shifting holo-
graphic interferometry is not employed, interpolating calcula-
Antonov1 but used two relative out-of-plane displacements
tions for determining the fringe orders are not needed, since to determine the residual stresses. Theoretical results ob-
the choice of data points becomes more flexible when using tained by the researchers mentioned above4-6 compared well
this general form. Two experiments, the first one carried out with their respective experimental data. However, interpola-
by the authors and the second one published previously, are tion was employed to extract the fringe orders of some data
used to illustrate the applicability and usefulness of this gen- points in order to perform accurate measurement.
eral form. Suggestions for the applications of this general form Although the phase-shifting holographic blind-hole
are also established via the upper bound error estimations. method7 is a convenient and precise technique for deter-
mining residual stresses, the expensive equipment and soft-
Introduction ware required pose a high threshold to justify widespread
use. To further spread the adoption of the holographic blind-
Holographic interferometry was first used by Antonov1 hole method, it is the intention of this paper to create a more
to measure the out-of-plane displacement field due to blind- general form to facilitate the analysis of the residual stresses
hole drilling (with the sensitivity vector of the interference measured using the holographic blind-hole method. With
fringe pattern set normal to the detected surface). An out- this more general form, three relative displacements obtained
of-plane displacement of a point around the blind hole was from a single interference fringe pattern are sufficient to deter-
used to determine uniaxial residual stresses. Bass, Schmitt mine the residual stresses released from the drilling of a blind
and Ahrens2 then adopted this method to determine in-plane hole. Interpolation is not needed to determine the fringe or-
residual stresses on the surface of a solid body. A displace- ders because the choice of data points becomes more flexible
ment vector solved using three interference fringe patterns in this new method. It is expected that with the introduction of
was required to determine the stresses. At about the same this more general form, the holographic blind-hole method
time, Nelson and McCrickerd3 canceled the out-of-plane and will become easier to implement whether a phase-shifting
tangential displacements by taking the difference of fringe or- technique is employed or not.
ders of two diametrically opposite points lying on the projec-
tion of the sensitivity vector. Three radial displacements ex- Displacement Field from Blind-hole Drilling
tracted from three interference fringe patterns were required
to determine the residual stresses. To simplify the optical Since residual stresses on the surface of a body can be
setup and facilitate application of the holographic blind-hole separated into a mean stress σm and a pure shear stress σs ,
method, a single-axis holographic blind-hole method was the principal stresses can be expressed as
then proposed by Makino and Nelson4 and Nelson et al.5
In their single-axis holographic blind-hole method, the ef- σmax = σm + σs (1a)
fect of the out-of-plane displacement field was canceled by
and
subtracting the fringe order of one point from its diametri-
cally opposite point. Three in-plane displacements obtained σmin = σm − σs , (1b)
from one interference fringe pattern were sufficient to re-
cover the residual stresses. Two other single-axis holographic where σmax and σmin are maximum and minimum principal
blind-hole methods were later proposed by Lin, Hsieh and stresses, respectively. Let
Hu6 to further simplify the methodology. The first one can- σm = Cm · E (2a)
S. T. Lin is Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, and
National Taipei University of Technology, Republic of China. C. T. Hsieh is
Lecturer, Department of Mechanical Engineering, St. Jone’s and St. Mary’s σs = Cs · E, (2b)
Institute of Technology, Republic of China. C. K. Lee is Professor, Institute
of Applied Mechanics, National Taiwan University, Republic of China. where E is the Young’s modulus of an isotropic material
Original manuscript submitted: xxxx and Cm and Cs are two dimensionless coefficients. Once a
Experimental Mechanics • 1
Fig. 1—Coordinates and displacement vector in an axisym-
metric body
blind hole is drilled into the surface of the solid body, the
mean stress and shear stress will be relieved simultaneously.
Referring to Fig. 1 and Lin, Hsieh and Hu,6 the displacement Fig. 2—Sensitivity vector and the points around a blind hole
field can be expressed as
Experimental Mechanics • 3
Fig. 5—Interference fringe pattern obtained from blind-hole
drilling
Fig. 3—Specimen
TABLE 6
beam theory,8 strain gage 2 was used to measure the loading i=1 i=2 i=3
force that was then used to calculate the pure shear stress at
Umi .2475 .2853 .2960
point A due to this force. These two stresses at point A, a Usi .4891 .5637 .5840
pure shear stress and a tensile stress, are shown in Fig. 4. Vsi .1641 .1930 .1943
A Du Pont photopolymer hologram was used to record the Wmi .1073 .1241 .1273
initial image of the specimen, which was then drilled using a Wsi .1545 .1798 .1820
RS-200 milling guide produced by Measurement Group. The
resulting interference fringe pattern was immediately viewed
through the hologram in real time and is shown in Figs. 5 Tables 1-5 to get the relative displacement constants. These
and 6. The test parameters and elastic modulus include a constants are shown in Table 6.
wavelength λ of 0.488 µm, a sensitivity vector K of 0.707i + The dimensions of the above constants are in millimeters
1.707k, a hole diameter D0 of 1.85 mm, a hole depth H of (mm). Substituting the above data into eqs (5), (2) and (1),
0.76, a Poisson’s ratio ν 0.33 and an elastic modulus E of 72 we have σmax = 143 Mpa, σmin = −110 Mpa, θ = 54 deg.
Gpa. Figure 6, which is also used to illustrate the use of eq
Figure 5, which is first used to illustrate the use of eq (5), (5), shows the same fringe pattern with the different angles
also shows the hole boundary; the x-axis; the angles α1 = 7 α1 = 20 deg, α2 = 83 deg, and α3 = −45 deg, data points
deg, α2 = 60 deg, and α3 = −45 deg (noting that these Pi1 and pi2 , and fringe order [Ni (pi1 , pi2 )] = [1, 1, −2]T .
angles are selected arbitrarily); the selected data points Pi1 Putting the hole dimensions and Poisson’s ratio shown above,
and pi2 ; and the fringe order [Ni (pi1 , pi2 )] = [0, 2, −2]T . together with Di1 and Di2 measured directly from Fig. 6, into
The hole dimensions and Poisson’s ratio shown above, and Tables 1-5, we have the relative displacement constants, with
Di1 and Di2 measured directly from Fig. 5, were put into units in millimeters, in Table 7.
Experimental Mechanics • 5
TABLE 8—SUGGESTIONS FOR THE APPLICATIONS OF THE GENERAL FORM
α1 (deg) α2 (deg) α3 (deg) K
≈0 ≈ 60–75 ≈ −α2 0.866i + 1.5k to 0.5i + 1.866k