High-temperature digital image correlation method for full-field deformation measurement at 1200 °C

A simple, easy-to-implement yet effective high-temperature digital image correlation (DIC) method is established for non-contact full-field deformation measurement at elevated temperatures. The technique employs a bandpass optical filter to eliminate the influence of black-body radiation of high-temperature objects on the intensity of captured images. With the bandpass filter, high-quality digital images of an object at high temperatures up to 1200 °C can be easily acquired and directly compared with the reference image recorded at room temperature using the DIC technique to extract full-field deformation information with high fidelity. To verify the performance of the proposed technique, a chromium-nickel austenite stainless steel sample was heated from room temperature to 1200 °C using an infrared heating device, and the surface images at various temperatures were captured using the bandpass filter imaging system. Afterwards, full-field thermal deformation and coefficient of thermal expansion of the sample were determined using the DIC technique. Experimental results indicate that the proposed high-temperature DIC method is easy to implement and can be applied to practical full-field high-temperature deformation measurement with high accuracy.