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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 28, 1987
Filed:
Aug. 30, 1985
Surendra K Chawla, Akron, OH (US);
The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, Akron, OH (US);
Abstract
A nondestructive means of testing tires for subsurface defects by speckle-shearing interferometry. The tire is illuminated with a beam of coherent light. The light reflected from a surface of the tire is directed through a converging lens having one-half of one of its surfaces covered by a transparent plate having flat parallel sides such that a photographic media is exposed to a first pair of focused images of the tire displaced with respect to one another. The tire is then subjected to a stress, and a second pair of slightly displaced images is recorded on the same photographic media. The photographic media is developed to form a transparency, and then a first surface of the developed photographic media is illuminated with a collimated white light source. Interference fringes that are observed by viewing the opposite surface of the photographic media may then be analyzed.