PSI - Issue 37

Pedro J. Sousa et al. / Procedia Structural Integrity 37 (2022) 730–737 Sousa et al. / Structural Integrity Procedia 00 (2019) 000 – 000

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Fig. 7. Main GUI window of the developed testing machine.

The action commands are available on the bottom left, with miscellaneous controls on the right, such as the record button. The system also has other windows, such as a live force-displacement chart and a settings window, where it is possible to set virtual position and force boundaries, among others. 4. Conclusions The developed machine is shown in Fig. 8a and is already in use for several material testing projects, some of them involving the use of interferometric methods, and others using only the machine itself.

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Fig. 8. Photo of the developed machine, (a) without any specimen and (b) being used in conjunction with ESPI in an MT specimen.