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A Realistic Error Budget for Two Dimension Digital Image Correlation

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There has been a lot of interest in the matching error for two-dimensional digital image correlation (2D-DIC), including the matching bias and variance; however, there are a number of other sources of error that must also be considered. These include temperature drift of the camera, out-of-plane sample motion, lack of perpendicularity, under-matched subset shape functions, and filtering of the results during the strain calculation. This talk will use experimental evidence to demonstrate some of the ignored error sources and compile a complete “notional” error budget for a typical 2D measurement.

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Acknowledgements

The author would like to thank Carl Stahoviak and Mindy Lake, summer interns who contributed greatly to this research.

Sandia is a multiprogram laboratory operated by Sandia Corporation, a Lockheed Martin Company, for the United States Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration under contract No. DE-AC04-94AL85000.

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Reu, P.L. (2016). A Realistic Error Budget for Two Dimension Digital Image Correlation. In: Jin, H., Yoshida, S., Lamberti, L., Lin, MT. (eds) Advancement of Optical Methods in Experimental Mechanics, Volume 3. Conference Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Mechanics Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22446-6_24

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