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Compose the software stack that best fits your needs

Our DIC fundamentals packages come equipped with state-of-the-art tools for uncertainty quantification and post-processing, right out of the box. For even greater flexibility, you can choose from optional modules for image acquisition, material identification, and model validation, allowing you to build a tailored DIC solution that fits your exact needs.

Not sure where to start? Check out our standard turnkey solutions.

1. Image acquisition

    • Integrates with AVT, Flir, Basler, Daheng, Baumer and Imaging Source cameras. Contact us for the supported models.

    • Synchronisation via MatchID Trigger Unit

    • External signal data acquisition via NI-USB devices (load cell, accelerometers, …)

    • Direct data output via Feedback Unit for machine control

    • MatchID's break-out unit allows to connect an unlimited amount of cameras

    • Special locking schemes for vibration and fatigue 

    • Remote control

    Quasi Static Frame Grabber

    • Integrates with iX, Phantom, Photron and Nac cameras. Contact us for the supported models.

    • External signal data acquisition via NI-USB devices (load cell, accelerometers, …).

    • Synchronisation with Telops IR high-speed cameras.

    High Speed Grabber

    • Live calibration to enhance your calibration procedure

    • Live control of your test system through DIC measurements (e.g. strain-based experiment control)

    • Live correlation to visualise the evolution of your DIC test (full-field or video-extensometry tracking)

    • Number of datapoints per second depends on the indicated DIC settings

    • Requires a DIC fundamentals package

    Live DIC

    • Analog signals: load cell, extensometer

    • Sensor signals: thermo-couple, strain gauges

    • Analog output: feedback from live DIC for test machine control

    Hardware Integration

  • Both our quasi-static and high-speed grabber solutions include dedicated tools to optimise your experimental imaging setup:

    • Live histogram

    • Over exposure indication

    • Camera alignment tools

    • Live camera noise

    • Lens focusing tools

    • Image averaging to reduce noise

    • Setup configuration: lenses, field-of-view, resolution to optimise pattern

    • Optimised speckle pattern generation

    • Image quality tool to validate speckle quality

    • Aliasing indicators    

    Image Quality

2. DIC fundamentals

    • Only 1 camera needed

    • For in-plane experiments

    • On flat specimens with a perpendicular camera alignment

    • Markers, extensometers and full-field

    • Higher-order shape functions

    • Parallelized and reliability guided algorithm that combines principles of local and global DIC

    • Data reconstruction at edges 

    • Batch-mode processing and access to all involved parameters

    • For any test involving out-of-plane motion

    • For structural component testing

    • Involves two camera for stereo-vision

    • Calibration with various lens distortion models

    • Markers, extensometers and full-field

    • Higher-order shape functions

    • Parallelised and reliability guided algorithm that combines principles of local and global DIC

    • Data reconstruction at edges

    • Batch-mode processing and access to all involved parameters

    3D full field measurement

    • When 2 cameras are not enough

    • For back-to-back measurements

    • To extend the field-of-view while preserving spatial resolution

    • To measure a complete 360° structure

    • Individually identify and position each camera in space

    • Seamless calibration of the entire system

    • Markers, extensometers and full-field

    MulticamDIC

3. Uncertainty quantification

    • Unique convergence study

    • Make concise choices on DIC user-dependent settings

    • Identify optimal subset size, shape function and strain filtering

    • Compromise between signal and noise

    • Generate metrological charts

    • Included in the DIC fundamentals packages

    PerformanceAnalysis

    • Generate benchmark FEA-based synthetic images with known values

    • Evaluate the inherent systematic error in DIC

    • Create a virtual test campaign to optimise experiments

    • Impose effects of blurring, light conditions, …

    • Synthetic images for 2D, Stereo, Multicam and Thermal

    • Seamless coupling with Abaqus, Ansys, Nastran Msc, LS Dyna, Simcenter Nastran

    • Validate your entire workflow: from signal reconstruction towards material identification, crack tip location, …

    • Included in the DIC fundamentals packages

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4. Results and post-processing

    • An advanced engineering toolbox

    • Dataset and multi-viewport concept

    • Extraction tools and chart generation

    • Data export in various formats (*.csv,*.mat,*.bmp, *.hdf, *.avi,*.mp4, *.stl, …)

    • Strain, strain rates, velocities, accelerations,...

    • Rigid body motion compensation, coordinate frame transformation, alignment tools, surface inspection and curvature analysis

    • Direct comparison of data from different experiments, including pure FEA data

    • Macro concept for template data analysis, extraction and presentation

    • Coding and custom application development (Python, Matlab, C++, C#)

    • Project and data sharing to non-licensed users

    • Report generation (LaTeX, pdf)

    • Included in the DIC fundamentals packages

    Results viewer MatchID

    • Direct stress reconstruction of experimental strain data

    • Integrated material models for

      • Elasticity

      • Plasticity ( Von Mises, Hill 48, YLD2000, Yoshida 2011, …)

      • Hyperelasticity ( Neo-Hookean, Mooney-Rivlin, Ogden, …)

      • Visco-elasticity (Prony-series)

      • Visco-plasticity (Network models)

    • Custom material models (CMAT) for coding your own material model​

    • Material cards to import/export material properties

    • Included in the DIC fundamentals packages

    New Stress Reconstruct

    • Evaluate the compliance of a constitutive model to your material

    • Operates with all our integrated stress models

    • Force reconstruction metric to validate force equilibrium across the specimen

    • Equilibrium gap indicator (EGI) to locally inspect equilibrium between internal and external work

    • Included in the DIC fundamentals packages

    • FFT with various windowing options (Hann, Haming, Kaiser)

    • Operational Deflection Shapes (Amplitude based, Butterworth filter)

    • Signal locking procedure to enable high-frequency reconstructions with low-speed cameras when the signal is periodic

    • Seamless data export to Simcenter Testlab

    • Included in the DIC fundamentals packages

    • Import of synchronised temperature data

    • Calibration procedure relying on calibration targets visible in the white-light and IR-spectra

    • Lens distortion corrections

    • Thermal data projected on material points

    • Included in the DIC fundamentals packages

    • Crack detection and Crack Opening Displacements

    • Multiple branch detection

    • Williams’ series and J-integrals (path and domain) to identify the crack tip location and stress intensity factors

    • J-integral study to evaluate the convergence of the J-integral paths

    • Included in the DIC fundamentals packages

    Fracture Mechanics

    • Forming Limit Curves according to ISO-12004-2

    • Position and time dependency

    • Generation of forming limit diagrams indicating material failure

    • Included in the DIC fundamentals packages

    Forming limit curves and diagrams

    • ISO-6892: Extensometry for metallic materials — Uniaxial tensile testing

    • ISO-12004-2: Forming limit curves

    • VDI/VDE-2626: Pre-acceptance test

    • ASTM D5528-13: Mode I interlaminar fracture toughness

    • Direct report generation (LaTeX, pdf)

    • Included in the DIC fundamentals packages

    STANDARDS DCB

5. Advanced optional modules

    • Seamless identification of mechanical material parameters based on full-field measurements

    • A material testing 2.0 concept

    • Reduced testing time and fewer test samples

    • Automated determination of weighting factors in the optimisation solver to maximise parameter sensitivity and minimise impact of noise

    • No FEA model needed

    • Generation of full-field stress maps

    • Elasticity, plasticity, hyperelasticity, visco-elasticity, visco-plasticity etc.

    • Requires a DIC fundamentals package

    Material identification

    • Adopting a levelling approach resolving the inherent different filtering procedures of DIC and FEA

    • Process FEA data through the same filters (subset, shape functions, interpolation, etc.) as the true experimental data

    • This levelling approach guarantuees a true digital twin

    • Shell/solid and linear/quadratic formulations

    • Seamless coupling with Abaqus, Ansys, Nastran Msc, LS Dyna, Simcenter Nastran

    • Generate full-field error and validation maps indicating possible model errors

    • Batch mode processing available, hence allowing for finite-element model updating

    • Requires a DIC fundamentals package

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Interested in our complete feature list?

We can help to compose the software stack you need, based on your objectives and the degree of adjustability you expect.

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