Error Estimation of the 3D Reconstruction of a Displacement Field from DIC Measurements

To enable an accurate simulation of manufacturing processes, it is essential to characterise and model the mechanical behaviour of sheet metals up to large deformations. However, after the onset of necking, deformation becomes highly heterogeneous and the stress is triaxial. By combining full-field measurements and inverse methods, it is possible to calibrate the mechanical behaviour beyond necking. A possibility is to use the virtual fields method, by extending its formulation to a fully three-dimensional approach. However, measuring deformation in the bulk of the material is still a challenge. To address this limitation, a volume reconstruction method able to estimate the deformation inside the specimen was proposed and successfully validated. The aim of this work is to estimate the error of the volume reconstruction method by using a simulated tensile test and the measurement chain associated with a virtual stereo-DIC setup composed of four cameras. A three-dimensional finite element model is used to deform synthetically generated images. The DIC field maps obtained with different setup configurations and DIC settings are used to estimate the error by comparing the reconstructed volume with the reference finite element model. Results show that the impact of conditions and DIC settings on the reconstructed volume is low.