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Comparison of Local and Global Approaches to Digital Image Correlation

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Local and global approaches to digital image correlation are compared when the displacement interpolation is based upon bilinear shape functions (i.e., with four-node quadrilaterals). The resolution in terms of displacements and strains associated with both techniques are evaluated a priori and validated a posteriori by using series of images of real experiments. It is shown that global approaches generally out-perform a local approach.

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  1. The resolution of a measuring system is the ‘smallest change in a quantity being measured that causes a perceptible change in the corresponding indication’ [39].

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The authors wish to thank the members of the Micromechanical Testing Laboratory at EDF R & D Les Renardières for kindly providing the two SEM pictures analyzed herein.

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Hild, F., Roux, S. Comparison of Local and Global Approaches to Digital Image Correlation. Exp Mech 52, 1503–1519 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11340-012-9603-7

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