THE VIRTUAL FIELDS METHOD
Association des Parents d'Elèves du Conservatoire de musique agréé et de danse de Châlons en Champagne

Application to high strain rate testing

It is a real challenge to perform photomechanics at very high rates of loading because of the poorer quality of the images provided by ultra high speed cameras. It is even more challenging to process such measurements with the VFM to extract properties because of the presence of inertia effects. For the moment, this activity is still very much exploratory but two projects are underway.

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