Displacement field measurements and capitalizing on experience: Application to the analysis of the rupture of holed composite plates

Abstract In this paper, we have concentrated on the use of the technique of measuring displacement fields by digital image correlation during tensile tests on different holed composite laminates. This technique is of particular use in validating the FE computation results with the aim of “capitalizing on experience”, i.e. identifying certain parameters of the material’s behavior directly from structure tests. We have demonstrated the feasibility of such an approach with the analysis of the rupture of holed composite plates (improved confidence in the failure criteria).