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DIC Challenge: Developing Images and Guidelines for Evaluating Accuracy and Resolution of 2D Analyses

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Mark A. Iadicola, Philip Reu, Hugh Bruck, Elizabeth Jones, Daniel Turner

Abstract

With the rapid spread in use of Digital Image Correlation (DIC) globally, it is important there be some standard methods of verifying and validating DIC codes. To this end, the DIC Challenge board was formed and is maintained under the auspices of the Society for Experimental Mechanics (SEM) and the international DIC society (iDICs). The goal of the DIC Board and the 2D-DIC Challenge is to supply a set of well-vetted sample images and a set of analysis guidelines for standardized reporting of 2D-DIC results from these sample images, as well as for comparing the inherent accuracy of different approaches and for providing users with a means of assessing their proper implementation. This document will outline the goals of the challenge, describe the image sets that are available, and give a comparison between 12 commercial and academic 2D-DIC codes using two of the challenge image sets.
Citation
Experimental Mechanics
Volume
58
Pub Type
Journals

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https://doi.org/10.1007/s11340-017-0349-0
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Keywords

Keywords: Digital Image Correlation, DIC, metrology, full-field measurement
Mechanical properties

Citation

Iadicola, M. , Reu, P. , Bruck, H. , Jones, E. and Turner, D. (2017), DIC Challenge: Developing Images and Guidelines for Evaluating Accuracy and Resolution of 2D Analyses, Experimental Mechanics, [online], https://doi.org/10.1007/s11340-017-0349-0 (Accessed November 3, 2025)

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Created December 11, 2017, Updated June 9, 2020
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