Digital sampling moiré (DSM) method is a newly developed vision-based technique that uses the phase information of moiré fringes to measure movement of an object. The moiré fringes are generated from a sequence of digital images, containing a cosinusoidal grating pattern attached to the object, through down-sampling and interpolation. As the moiré fringes can magnify the pattern’s movement, this technique is expected to provide more accurate displacement measurement than the other vision based approaches. In this study, a method combining DSM with monocular videogrammetric technique is proposed to measure in-plane rotation and translation of structures. In this method, images of a two-dimensional (2D) grating pattern attached to a moving structure are acquired and decomposed into two perpendicular gratings through Fourier transform. The DSM method is used to obtain 2D phase distributions of the gratings which provide an estimation of physical coordinates for those points on the grating pattern. A previously developed monocular videogrammetric technique can then be used to obtain the rotation angle and the translation of the grating pattern. The proposed method is validated using both numerical simulation and laboratory tests.
Measuring static and dynamic displacements for in-service structures is an important issue for the purpose of design validation, performance monitoring and safety assessment of structures. Currently available techniques can be classified into indirect measurement and direct measurement. These methods however have their own problems and limitations Digital sampling moiré method is a newly developed vision-based technique for direct displacement measurement. It uses one camera to capture digital images containing a grating pattern. The images are subsampled and interpolated to generate moiré patterns whose phase information can then be used to calculate displacements of the grating pattern. As the moiré patterns can magnify the pattern’s movement, this technique is expected to provide more accurate displacement measurement than the other vision based approaches. In this study, a digital sampling moiré technique is proposed for measuring two-dimensional structural displacements using a designed grating pattern. The pattern contains two orthogonally inclined gratings and does not have to be perfectly aligned with the image plane. A series of simulation and laboratory tests are conducted to validate the accuracy of the proposed technique. Results show that the technique can achieve accuracy in the order of 10 micrometers in the laboratory. Also, the technique does not seem to suffer from the issue of misalignment between the camera and the pattern and exhibits a potential for accurate measurement of displacement for civil engineering structures.
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