! Research & Development

A substantial part of the LOME activities is devoted to R&D projects under contract. This contracts are held under R&D National and International programs.

The main techniques used in the laboratory are as follows:

  • Holographic Interferometry
  • Speckle Techniques
  • ESPI (TV Holography), in plane and out of plane
  • Shearography
  • Pulsed ESPI and Pulsed Shearography
  • Image Processing
  • Heterodyne Techniques
  • Moiré Holography
  • Structural Intensity
  • Photoelasticity
  • 3D topograpphy with structured light
  • Computer Generated Holograms (CGH)
  • Optical Pattern Recognition with SLM
  • Electric Strain Gauge Analisys
  • Finite Element Methods (FEM)
  • Non destructive techniques (NDT)
  • High Split Hopkinson Bar
  • PZT control of shape and damping

Some of the R&D projects undertaken by LOME are listed below:


 
      "EUCLID-CEPA3-RTP3.1. Aeronautical application technology. Holographic methods"  

      Funding:
Portuguese Ministry of Defense (MOD)

      Partners: Aerospatiale(F), IABG/DASA(D), HOLO3(F), ISL(F), TPD-TNO(NL), DUT(NL), CSL(B), Steinbichler(D),       SONACA(B), Dassault-Aviation(F), OGMA(P)
 

     
 "Development and application of laser interferometric techniques"  

      Funding:
Internal (LOME/INEGI)

      Partners: FCTUC (University of Coimbra)
 
      "PDHS-Pulsed digital holography and shearography"  

      Funding:
BRITE-EURAM (EU)

      Partners: Aerospatiale(F), PSA(F), HOLO3(F), FIAT(I), GNB(D), Ettemeyer(D), ITO(D), BAe(UK) and ETH(CH)
 
      "Creep behaviour of advanced composites under LHC (Large Hadron Collider) environment"  

      Funding:
CERN/FCT

      Partners: CEMACOM(P), LNEC(P), CERN(CH)
 
      "SHEAR - Shearographic system for NDT of structures in composite materials"  

      Funding:
Portuguese Ministry of Defense (MOD)

      Partners: OGMA, FCTUC
 
      "PSEUDOTEC - Structural Analysis with pseudo-dynamic techniques"  

      Funding:
PRAXIS XXI (FCT and EU)

      Partners: NA
 
      "VIP-Vibration intensity processing by full field laser multi-pulse techniques"  

      Funding:
BRITE-EURAM (EU)

      Partners: Robert BOSCH(D), RESULT(D), HOLO3(F), GNS(D), Per Kuppa(D), OGMA(P), Salvador Caetano(P)       ITO(D), CETIM(F), QUANTEL(F)
 
      "Experimental techniques to bio-mechanic applications"  

      Funding:
Internal (LOME/INEGI)

      Partners: Doctor José Carlos Reis Campos, Prof. in the Portuguese Faculty of Dental Medicine of University of       Porto, Prof. José António Oliveira Simões from the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Aveiro
 
      "Shape modelling and evaluation techniques"  

      Funding:
Internal (LOME/INEGI)

      Partners:
 
      "Image processing techniques"  

      Funding:
Internal (LOME/INEGI)

      Partners:

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