Mechanics-aided digital image correlation

By construction, digital image correlation is an ill-posed problem. To circumvent this difficulty, regularization is often performed implicitly through the kinematic basis chosen to express the sought displacement fields. Conversely, a priori information on the mechanical behavior of the studied material is often available. It is proposed to evaluate the gain to be expected from such a mechanical assistance, namely, the measured displacement not only satisfies as best as possible the gray-level conservation but also mechanical admissibility.