Virtual Testing & Integration
Virtual Testing & Model Validation
An important area where DIC is bound to bring a revolution is the validation of engineering designs through structural testing. DIC provides spatially-dense data that are a match for simulations but the tools to integrate both in a single streamlined procedure are still missing. There are many challenges to be overcome as test and simulations ‘live’ in different worlds. This integration has been christened “Tessimulation”. MatchID has developed dedicated tools to ‘push’ the simulation data through the same filter as the DIC one to allow for a fair comparison of the data independently from the choice of the many DIC parameters like subset size, shape function and strain window.
In the future, DIC will certainly be integrated with both CAD (to design the experiment itself) and Finite Element packages to ensure a seamless flow of data between the different facets of the design. Again, MatchID is actively working towards this goal.
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