RO2 : Eikology

Quantitative imaging is at the heart of the renewal of experimental mechanics.  Through a multitude of modalities and scales, it allows to enrich the structural or surface characterization by its kinematic expression under mechanical stresses, but also multiphysics, and this in two or three dimensional in situ configurations.  It also concerns materials from the finest scales (nano: AFM, TEM, SEM, etc. and micro: X-ray tomography, SEM, optical, etc.) to industrial parts and engineering structures.  The "Eikology" RO aims to link kinematic and thermal measurements from these imaging tools with the mechanical modelling of the objects studied by exploiting their synergy: the experimental measurement feeds the modelling, which in turn allows the measurement of mechanically significant quantities in a set of images and experimental data. Optimal processing to minimise measurement uncertainties is the guiding principle of the approaches developed to aim for "the right experiment".
The developments planned for the near future concern extreme experimental conditions (high temperatures, fast phenomena, outdoor measurements, couplings, etc.), the exploitation of poor, incomplete, rare and noisy data (to extend the scope of our methods), or the optimisation of tests and acquisition conditions (pre-design of multi-instrument tests, agility of acquisitions, strong hybridisation of imaging and modelling).