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Discrete Digital Projections Correlation: A Reconstruction-Free Method to Quantify Local Kinematics in Granular Media by X-ray Tomography

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We propose a new method to measure the translations and rotations of each individual grain in a granular material imaged by computerized tomography. Unlike the classic approach, which requires that both initial and current configurations be fully reconstructed, ours only requires a reconstruction of the initial configuration. In this sense, our method is reconstruction-free, since any subsequent deformed state can be analyzed without further reconstruction. One distinguishing feature of the proposed method is that it requires very few projections of the deformed sample, thus allowing for time-resolved experiments.

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This work has benefited from a French government grant managed by ANR within the frame of the national program Investments for the Future ANR-11-LABX-022-01.

The authors would like to thank Matthieu Vandamme for fruitful discussions.

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Khalili, M.H., Brisard, S., Bornert, M. et al. Discrete Digital Projections Correlation: A Reconstruction-Free Method to Quantify Local Kinematics in Granular Media by X-ray Tomography. Exp Mech 57, 819–830 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11340-017-0263-5

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