Project description
We have a micromechanical testing system called the BioTester by CellScale which allows the measurement of the material properties of small tissue samples. This system uses a camera for non-contact surface (2D) measurement of displacements and strains. The technique being applied is called Digital Image Correlation (DIC), where a speckle pattern is applied to the surface which is tracked from sequential camera/video images during loading, from which displacements and strains can be calculated using strain-displacement theory. The project will involve the development of the technique for use with the BioTester, which will be validated against known displacements/strains and also against an independent 3D DIC system.
Co-supervisors
Michael Russo
Assumed knowledge
Solid Mechanics/Mechanics of Materials
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