Deterioration of wood artwork is often connected to mechanical material degradation that
starts on microscopic scales. Insight into decay mechanisms can be obtained by monitoring …

Lasers are adequate tools in the processing and characterization of materials. The Applied
Superconductivity group at the Aragón Materials Science Institute has been applying …

The applicability of digital speckle pattern interferometry (DSPI) to the analysis of surface
corrosion processes has been evaluated by studying the evolution of an Fe surface …

Radial deformation of blood vessels has been measured by combining shape and
deformation measurements. The difficulty of measuring both magnitudes simultaneously is …

Little is known on the electrical properties of superconducting tapes and coatings in the
direction transverse to the long dimension of the composite. However, transverse dissipation …

Here, the anisotropy between the longitudinal and transverse directions of multi-filamentary
Bi 2 Sr 2 Ca 2 Cu 3 O 10+ x tapes (“in plane” anisotropy) is studied by transport and …

Digital speckle pattern interferometry has been used to detect inhomogeneous heating in
YBa 2 Cu 3 O 7− δ coated conductors. The analysis was performed in a sample with a …

Hot spots are one of the main limitations in the development of large-scale high-power
applications with superconducting materials. The application of digital speckle interferometry …

This article presents information on a study conducted to examine the local transport
characteristics in the transverse direction of bismuth strontium calcium copper oxide …

Quench initiation in homogeneous YBa 2 Cu 3 O 7-delta (YBCO) coated conductors in
nitrogen vapor has been analyzed using digital speckle pattern interferometry (DSPI) and …