Mechanical Characterization Using Digital Image Correlation

In this book, a precise treatment of the experimental characterization of advanced composite materials using Digital Image Correlation (DIC) is presented. The text explains test methods, testing setup with 2D- and stereo-DIC, specimen preparation and patterning, testing analysis and data reduction schemes to determine and to compare mechanical properties, such as modulus, strength and fracture toughness of advanced composite materials. Sensitivity and uncertainty studies on the DIC calculated data and mechanical properties for a detailed engineering-based understanding are covered instead of idealized theories and sugarcoated results. The book provides students, instructors, researchers and engineers in industrial or government institutions, and practitioners working in the field of experimental/applied structural mechanics of materials a myriad of color figures from DIC measurements for better explanation, datasets of material properties serving as  input parameters for analytical modelling, raw data and computer codes for data reduction, illustrative graphs for teaching purposes, practice exercises with solutions provided online and extensive references to the literature at the end of each stand-alone chapter.

• Materials characterization textbook
• DIC
• Composites,
• phenomenological and quantitative visualization
• shear testing
• fracture testing
• flexural moduli
• comparative study
• experimental mechanics
• carbon fiber
• non-idealized real data

• Guest Researcher, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg, USA

  Matthias Merzkirch

Dr.-Ing. Matthias Merzkirch was a Guest Researcher at National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) at the NIST Center for Automotive Lightweighting (NCAL). He has been a Postdoc at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) where he earned his Ph.D in mechanical engineering. He was working at the Fraunhofer Institute for Mechanics of Materials (IWM) and a visiting scientist at Arizona State University (ASU) at Chawla Research Group. He is a researcher at Research Institutes of Sweden (RISE) and lecturer at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT).

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