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Voxel-Scale Digital Volume Correlation

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Among various correlation techniques to find the displacement field of a volume imaged by X-ray tomography at several deformation states, a new approach is proposed where the displacement is measured down to the voxel scale and determined from a mechanically regularized system using the equilibrium gap method, and an additional boundary regularization. It is shown that even if the underlying material behavior is not very well known, this approach leads to extremely small correlation residuals. An excellent stability of the estimated displacement field for noisy (reconstructed) volumes is also observed.

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Acknowledgements

This work was funded under the grant ANR-09-BLAN-0009-01 (RUPXCUBE Project). It was also made possible by an ESRF grant for the experiment MA-501 on beamline ID19. The scans were obtained with the help of Drs. J.-Y. Buffière, A. Gravouil, N. Limodin, W. Ludwig, and J. Rannou.

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    H. Leclerc, S. Roux & F. Hild (SEM member)

  2. Institut Clément Ader (ICA), Université de Toulouse, INSA, UPS, Mines Albi, ISAE, 133 Avenue de Rangueil, 31077, Toulouse, France

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Leclerc, H., Périé, JN., Roux, S. et al. Voxel-Scale Digital Volume Correlation. Exp Mech 51, 479–490 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11340-010-9407-6

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