Application of spline interpolation to speckle shearography measurements for damage identification

This paper aims to explore a new technique for structural damage identification using cubic spline interpolation. The method is based on the interpolation of modal rotations measured with speckle shearography. In order to locate the damaged areas, we make use of the analytical derivative of the cubic spline function to compute the modal curvature, which is known to be very sensitive to damage. A comprehensive parametric study of the spatial sampling interval is carried out to find its influence on noise filtering. Furthermore, the identification quality dependency on the mode shape and respective noise is also examined. The results obtained with the proposed method show the consistency of the localizations. Additionally, the challenging tasks of identifying small and multiple damage are tackled, yielding a good performance. (C) 2019 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.