2

Estimation of the Deformation Gradient Tensor by Particle Tracking Near a Free Boundary with Quantified Error

Background Obtaining accurate displacement measurements for large material deformation and/or rotation presents a distinct challenge to digital image correlation (DIC) due to cumulative and decorrelation errors, particularly near material …

Crack tip kinematics reveal the process zone structure in brittle hydrogel fracture

When brittle hydrogels fail, several mechanisms conspire to alter the state of stress near the tip of a crack, and it is challenging to identify which mechanism is dominant. In the fracture of brittle solids, a sufficient far-field stress results in …

Rapid and Repeatable Fluorescent Speckle Pattern Fabrication Using a Handheld Inkjet Printer

Background: compared with regular speckle patterns formed by reflecting the illumination light, fluorescent speckle patterns generated by the emitted light of fluorescent particles offer distinct advantages of specular reflection elimination, high …

Heatwave distortion correction using an improved reference sample compensation method and multispectral digital image correlation

Heatwave distortions, caused by unevenly distributed temperature and refractive index in the optical path, unavoidably occur in high-temperature digital image correlation (DIC) measurement. To eliminate these distortions, a multispectral DIC-aided …

Fluorescent 2D Digital Image Correlation With Built‐in Coaxial Illumination for Deformation Measurement in Space‐constrained Scenarios

An advanced two-dimensional digital image correlation (2D-DIC) using active imaging and telecentric imaging has been proposed to overcome the problems of out-of-plane motion and ambient light variation. Here, the technique is further improved by …

Enhanced digital gradient sensing using backlight digital speckle target

Digital gradient sensing (DGS) is a non-contact and full-field optical measurement technique, which assesses mechanical behaviors of transparent materials or specular structures by measuring angular deflections of light rays. However, owing to the …

High-throughput measurement of coefficient of thermal expansion using a high-resolution digital single-lens reflex camera and digital image correlation

High-throughput measurement of thermal deformation and determination of coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE) using a high-resolution digital single lens reflex (DSLR) camera and digital image correlation (DIC) is described. To mitigate the mosaic …

Fluorescent digital image correlation applied for macroscale deformation measurement

Fluorescent digital image correlation (DIC) has been implemented on monocular and binocular fluorescence microscopes for shape and deformation measurements at the microscale and even the nanoscale by tracking fluorescent particles. This technique, …

Ultrasensitive video extensometer using single-camera dual field-of-view telecentric imaging system

Video extensometer assesses mechanical properties of materials by measuring their length changes under different loadings with combined use of video recording and image processing. In this Letter, an ultrasensitive video extensometer implemented on a …

A flexible and easy-to-implement single-camera microscopic 3D digital image correlation technique

We propose a novel, flexible and easy-to-implement single-camera microscopic three-dimensional digital image correlation (3D-DIC) technique for accurate full-field shape, motion and deformation measurements at the microscale. The established …