Santos, J.V. AraújoLopes, HernaniRibeiro, J.E.Maia, N.M.M.Vaz, M.A.P.2012-07-172012-07-172010Araújo dos Santos, J.V.; Lopes, H.; Ribeiro, J.E.: Maia, N.M.M.; Vaz, M. (2010). Damage localisation in beams using the ritz method and speckle shear interferometry. In The Tenth International Conference on Computational Structures Technology (CST 2010). Valencia, Spain. ISBN 978-1-905088-36-2978-1-905088-36-2http://hdl.handle.net/10198/7242A novel numerical-experimental technique is developed in order to minimise some of the difficulties exhibited by others damage localisation approaches. The present technique relies on the computation of undamaged rotation fields using the Ritz method and the Timoshenko beam theory, while the measurement of damaged rotation fields is performed by speckle shear interferometry.engDamage detectionRitz methodTimoshenko beam theoryRotation fieldSpatial derivativeShear interferometry.conference object