A two
beam laser interference measuring method to measure thermal material expansion coefficient relates to two
beam laser interference measuring for thermal material expansion coefficient. A tested sample is positioned into a
fastener of a highly vacuum
heating furnace and the
heating furnace is vacuumized below 10-4Pa. A
laser emitting box of a SIOS-SP120D
laser interference instrument emits two beams of
laser onto a surface of the tested sample, thus making the lasers reflected to respectively return to a laser emitting port along an original path through the sample surface and forming interference with incident laser.
Laser path displacement of the laser beam a and b respectively achieves
Delta a and
Delta b according to measuring. Expansion of the tested sample in section L is
Delta L according to a difference between Delta a and Delta b. A K type
thermocouple measures temperature of the tested sampled in the highly vacuum
heating furnace. Temperature data will be collected through a data collection data. The
thermal expansion of the tested sample of the present invention is a difference of laser path displacement between two
laser beams totally offset
system errors of single-
beam laser resulting from
thermal expansion of sampling table and clamp, etc. Therefore, the method completely eliminates
system errors while measuring the
thermal expansion, improves measuring precision and accurately reflects process of material
phase variation.