A Review of the Challenges and Limitations of Full-Field Measurements Applied to Large Heterogeneous Deformations of Rubbers

Jean-Benoit Le Cam (1)

1 IPR - Institut de Physique de Rennes

This paper presents an overview of the use of full-field measurement techniques, more precisely digital image correlation (DIC) and coupled DIC and infrared thermography, for the material and structure characterisation of rubber reported in the literature. Even though such techniques have increasingly been applied for approximately 30 years for moderate deformations in metal and composite materials, they are still under-employed in the measurement of full kinematic and thermal fields in the case of large deformations undergone by rubber materials. To date, the applications addressed are crack propagation at both macroscopic and microscopic scales, model validation and constitutive parameter identification.

Mots clés: infrared thermography; identification; heat source calculation; virtual field method; digital image correlation; crack propagation; elastomer

Domaines: Mécanique des matériaux [physics.class-ph]

Jean-Benoit Le Cam. A Review of the Challenges and Limitations of Full-Field Measurements Applied to Large Heterogeneous Deformations of Rubbers. Strain, 2012, 48, pp.174-188. ⟨10.1111/j.1475-1305.2011.00830.x⟩. ⟨hal-01131578⟩