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The bulge test geometry, sometimes called blister or burst test, has a long history of use for material property identification. Paper materials are thin with relatively low stiffness; in a bulge test paper materials will exhibit a combination of membrane and plate behavior. We have developed a VFM examination to identify the in-plane stiffnesses of this type of material by incorporating both membrane and plate internal work.
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Considine, J.M., Tang, X. (2018). Use of Bulge Test Geometry for Material Property Identification. In: Baldi, A., Considine, J., Quinn, S., Balandraud, X. (eds) Residual Stress, Thermomechanics & Infrared Imaging, Hybrid Techniques and Inverse Problems, Volume 8. Conference Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Mechanics Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62899-8_7
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