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ENGINEERING FRACTURE MECHANICS
Volume 290, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.engfracmech.2023.109493
Keywords
Discontinuous deformation; Crack; Element removal global digital image; correlation; Fracture; Cohesive zone model; Crack deflection
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We propose an element-removal (ER) global digital image correlation (DIC) method to improve the measurement accuracy of discontinuous deformation fields, such as crack propagation. The proposed ER-global-DIC algorithm iteratively identifies and removes all the elements covering the crack, during the updating of displacement fields. The effectiveness and accuracy of the proposed method are validated through synthetically deformed images and applied to measure discontinuous displacement fields containing a crack deflection.
We propose an element-removal (ER) global digital image correlation (DIC) method to improve the measurement accuracy of discontinuous deformation fields, such as crack propagation. The occurrence of cracks in materials or structures inevitably deteriorates the tracking accuracy, and, consequently, the strain field accuracy obtained by regular subset and global DIC. The proposed ER-global-DIC algorithm iteratively identifies and removes all the elements covering the crack, during the updating of displacement fields. In the remaining elements, the continuous shape function is applicable for accurate deformation measurement. In principle, although elements that contain the cracks are removed, the algorithm preserves the same number of nodes since the nodes are retained by the remaining elements. Synthetically deformed images based on analytical discontinuous displacement fields validate the effectiveness and accuracy of the proposed method. The ER-global-DIC is further applied to measure the discontinuous displacement fields containing a crack deflection, generated from a finite element model with a cohesive zone model. The results demonstrate the potential of the proposed method for discontinuous deformation measurement on advanced materials, e.g., fiber-reinforced composites.
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