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HoloViz: An example of a past project.
A holographic camera was designed and built by the Optical Engineering Laboratory (OEL), Warwick University, for Roll-Royce in 1992.
The camera is used to make holograms of the transonic airflow as it passes through a rotating front fan on a test-bed based gas turbine engine. The company have a major series of holographic tests planned on the Trent engine in 18 months time. As a result of the forthcoming tests they have recently returned the camera to Warwick for a update and re-fit the camera which has a 250mm holographic film format.
This has given the OEL the opportunity to explore several new aspects of holographic technology.
A low cost thermoplastic material has recently been released by a series of Russian scientists. Over the next year a thermoplastic holographic camera will be on loan. It is intended to make a series of holograms to access the suitability of this material for the conventional 'wet' processing associated with holographic film.
A 'shaking' earthquake simulation model is currently being designed and built for evaluation by the OEL by Cambridge University. The object of study will be to investigate a series of different vibrationally sensitive models of power station cooling towers. A part of the up-date a series of holograms will be made. Methods by which the holographic images generated could be encoded to allow them to being processed by the use of automatic an analysis software package (FRAN) which has been created by the OEL.
A second holographic camera supplied to British Aerospace by the OEL is in constant use. Again effort would be made to generalise any applications made on the RR camera for application on other systems.
Alternative vibration models will be welcome by the OEL for evaluation.
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