Advancement of Optical Methods & Digital Image Correlation in Experimental Mechanics represents one of the eight volumes of technical papers presented at the 2018 SEM Annual Conference & Exposition on Experimental and Applied Mechanics organized by the Society for Experimental Mechanics and held in Greenville, SC, June 4–7, 2018. The complete proceedings also include volumes on Dynamic Behavior of Materials; Challenges in Mechanics of Time Dependent Materials; Mechanics of Biological Systems & Micro-and Nanomechanics; Mechanics of Composite, Hybrid & Multifunctional Materials; Fracture, Fatigue, Failure and Damage Evolution; Residual Stress, Thermomechanics & Infrared Imaging, Hybrid Techniques and Inverse Problems; and Mechanics of Additive and Advanced Manufacturing.
Each collection presents early findings from experimental and computational investigations on an important area within experimental mechanics, optical methods, and DIC being important areas.
With the advancement in imaging instrumentation, lighting resources, computational power, and data storage, optical methods have gained wide applications across the experimental mechanics society during the past decades. These methods have been applied for measurements over a wide range of spatial domain and temporal resolution. Optical methods have utilized a full-range of wavelengths from X-ray to visible lights and infrared. They have been developed not only to make
two-dimensional and three-dimensional deformation measurements on the surface but also to make volumetric measurements throughout the interior of a material body.