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[March 2006]
Digital Image Correlation Meeting
NPL will stage a meeting on digital image correlation (DIC) for strain measurement on 28 March 2006.The meeting is aimed at engineers and scientists with an interest in strain and deformation measurement, looking to develop a better understanding of the capabilities of DIC for their own applications. The meeting will consist of a series of presentations from internationally recognised researchers, experts and DIC system providers, covering various aspects of DIC technique development, validation and application, together with a hands-on demonstration session where delegates will be able to examine and compare systems demonstrated by different DIC system suppliers.
The meeting will take place at NPL's site in Teddington, Middx, England.
DIC is a relatively recent development and is receiving considerable interest as a tool for full field, non-contact strain measurement with a large and diverse range of potential applications. DIC techniques work by comparing changes in images to build up deformation vector fields and full field 2D and 3D strain maps.
The technique can be applied over a wide range of length scales from measurements on large structures to analysing images from microscopes and the SEM, and provides a powerful and effective tool for validating 3D FE models of complex geometry component deformation and behaviour.
Interested parties can e-mail NPL's Dr Jerry Lord for further details (jerry.lord@npl.co.uk) or view details on the event PDF via the NPL website: www.npl.co.uk/materials/events/28mar06_digital_image_correlation.pdf
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