April 2016

Strain field determination using displacement gradient model and unified least-squares technique

Deformation analysis is crucial to applications in geodesy, structural engineering, and geology, of which the main goal is to detect the behaviors of a deformed body. Traditional deformation analyses rely on a limited number of observations and thus give a relatively poor description of the strain field on the entire object. In this study, a method based on the displacement gradient model and unified least-squares...

Author(s): Yi-Chun Lin and Jen-Yu Han