ARAMIS HighSpeed was developed for the Space Shuttle Return-to-Flight program and was core to the LS-DYNA model validations required for launch of the Shuttles after the Columbia accident.

Ballistic impact of a bullet into Kevlar defensive material at Army Research Lab (APG)

ARAMIS HighSpeed is a powerful optical system for measuring the full-field dynamic behavior of complex materials and structures. The system offers a non-contact measurement of 3D coordinates, 3D deformation and strain using 3D image correlation methods (digital image correlation, DIC) using high-resolution, high-speed digital CCD cameras.

The object under load is viewed by one (2D) or two (3D) high-resolution digital CCD cameras. The deformation of this structure under different load conditions is recorded by the CCD cameras and evaluated using digital image processing. The results are the 3D-coordinates, 3D displacements, the surface strain and the complete strain tensor.

Common uses include:

- Materials characterization of metallics, composites, ceramics
- Impact, Ballistic and Blast measurements
- FEM confirmation & boundary condition checking
- Fracture mechanics and Estimating stability
- Split-Hopkinson Bar Measurements (full-field)
- Examining non-linear deformation behavior
- Taylor Series Impacts
- High-speed deformation & strain measurements (see application page)

Industries served:

- Aerospace: composite & advanced material studies, structural loading studies
- Automotive: Auto Crash
- Microelectronics: drop tower tests and thermal shock
- Composites Manufacturing:quality control, failure analysis, material & structural properties
- Metal Forming: dynamic forming limit measurements
- Biomechanics: bone & tissue strains (see application page)
- Civil Engineering: dynamic structural response

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