Papers by Author: Myung Soo Kim

Abstract: A multi-purpose polariscope was developed by applying an electro-mechanical control system to a diffused transmission-type circular polariscope. A conventional polariscope is only good for manual control of optical elements. The new polariscope system was devised to be controlled through two stepping motors and two magnetic clutches. The new polariscope can be used not only for the point-wise measurement using Tardy compensation technique but also for the full-field fringe analysis using conventional and/or phase measuring techniques, if applicable. The distributions of digitally determined unwrapped isoclinics and isochromatics using the digitized images obtained from the developed polariscope were in close agreement to manual measurements.

Abstract: Speckle interferometry with phase shifting method is used to measure in-plane displacements of a steel plate with a partly through-thickness circular hole and a steel plate with a through-thickness circular hole. The circular hole of steel plate with a partly through-thickness circular hole is cut on the rear side of the plate, so that it is not visible during experiment. The speckle noises of fringe patterns acquired by optical experiment are processed with image processing algorithm of Gaussian blur and the in-plane displacements of the two specimens are obtained by use of the processed fringe patterns. Also the in-plane displacements of the two specimens are calculated by use of ANSYS. The results of optical experiments are quite comparable to those of calculation with ANSYS.