A speckle interferometer which can measure whole field three-dimensional displacements continuously and dynamically has been built. Three different wavelength lasers are used to produce the speckle interferograms of the two in-plane displacements (displacements in the x- and y-direction) and one out-of-plane displacement (displacement in the z-direction), respectively. One color CCD camera is employed to collect these mixed speckle interferograms simultaneously. The mixed interferograms are separated by the Red, Green and Blue channels of the color CCD camera, and then are processed by the wavelet transform technique to extract the phase information of the measured object. The preliminary experiment is carried out to demonstrate the performance of this new device.

In this paper, a new non-contact and real-time measurement system for Kolsky bars is presented. This system uses two sets of temporal speckle interferometry in-plane displacement measurement devices to replace two strain gauges of conventional Kolsky bars. The in-plane displacement measurement of the Kolsky bar is mainly intended to provide a new test method for the dynamic mechanical properties of small-size material samples with diameters below 2 mm. This method is non-contact, does not require any intermediate medium, and can make the Kolsky bar applicable to characterizing the dynamic mechanical properties of materials under higher strain rates and smaller size conditions. The measuring devices and principles are described. In addition, a preliminary experiment is carried out to demonstrate the performance of this new device.