181 Real-time location and quantification of damage in composite materials

This study demonstrates new techniques for processing and presenting data from digital image correlation. The techniques enable the real-time quantification of damage severity in composite specimens, as damage occurs during mechanical tests. The data is then presented in a novel format, called a damage-time map, that shows the spatio-temporal progression of damage in a specimen in a single figure. The developed techniques reduce the amount of time that experimenters must spend analysing large amounts of DIC data, freeing them to focus on developing a deeper understanding of damage mechanics.