X-ray microtomography, X-3D-Digital Image Correlation and X-FEM multigrid, a general tool for 3D crack growth law identification
Résumé
The present paper aims at showing that coupling the eXtended Finite Element Method with X-ray microtomography and 3D digital image correlation provides a very promising tool to assess the 3D behaviour of arbitrary shaped cracks and to perform comparisons of “experimental” and simulated” crack shapes during propagation [1]. At first, 3D X-ray microtomography enables one to get 3D pictures of the local density of solids. Image and/or volume correlations require a random texture. Exploiting the resolution of the acquisition device available at INSA Lyon, cast-iron samples containing a fatigue crack were selected to provide adequate (random) markers. The graphite nodules provide a random texture in the images (Fig. 1). A testing machine inside the tomograph allows for taking 3D pictures of the specimen during a tensile test. The crack is visible on the deformed picture of the specimen, see Fig. 1:
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