Dynamic optical studies in materials testing with spectral-domain polarization-sensitive optical coherence tomography

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 25, 2010, Pages 25712-25725

  Stifter, David ^a   Leiss Holzinger, Elisabeth ^b   Major, Zoltan ^a   Baumann, Bernhard ^c   Pircher, Michael ^c   Götzinger, Erich ^c   Hitzenberger, Christoph K ^c   Heise, Bettina ^a  

^a JOHANNES KEPLER UNIVERSITY LINZ   (Austria)

^b Research Center for Non Destructive Testing GmbH (RECENDT)   (Austria)

^c Christian Doppler Laboratory for Innovative Optical Imaging and its Translation to Medicine   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARY FLOW; COHERENT SCATTERING; FRACTURE; FRACTURE MECHANICS; FRACTURE TESTING; IMAGE PROCESSING; MATERIALS TESTING; OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING; POLARIZATION; STRESS CONCENTRATION; TENSILE TESTING; TOMOGRAPHY;

1550 NM; BULK POLYMER; DYNAMIC MECHANICAL TESTING; FIBER-MATRIX DEBONDING; FIBER-REINFORCED COMPOSITE MATERIAL; FRACTURE TEST; IMAGE PROCESSING ALGORITHM; IN-SITU; INHOMOGENEITIES; INTERNAL STRESS DISTRIBUTION; OPTICAL STUDY; POLARIZATION PATTERNS; POLARIZATION SENSITIVE OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; SPECTRAL-DOMAIN; STRUCTURAL FAILURE; TIME CHANGE;

FIBER REINFORCED MATERIALS;

CAPILLARITY; FIBERS; FLUID DYNAMICS; FRACTURE; POLARIZATION; REINFORCED PLASTIC; TEAR STRENGTH; TENSILE TESTERS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; HARDNESS; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; REFRACTOMETRY; TENSILE STRENGTH;

ALGORITHMS; HARDNESS TESTS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MATERIALS TESTING; REFRACTOMETRY; TENSILE STRENGTH; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 78650070281     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.025712     Document Type: Article

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