Full field optical measurements for advanced structural dynamics: first outcomes

Abstract. A growing activity of the first author on full-field vibration measurements and promising analyses on dynamic characterisation of components, on dynamic strain & stresses and on cumulative damage maps has drawn the attention of a foreign institution such as Vienna University of Technology up to offer full access to its Schwingungs- und Strukturanalyse / Optical Vibration Measurement Laboratory, equipped with state-of-the-art instruments implementing different & complementary approaches, in order to give the researcher the unique opportunity to extend the stream of researches in the strategic field of image-based measurement technologies. The early activity carried on in the frame of the settled Full-Field Optical Measurements for Advanced Structural Dynamics project is discussed in detail, showing the first achievements.