A method for the observation of the anelastic behaviour of anisotropic porous materials using digital image correlation

This paper proposes an experimental method for observing the anelastic anisotropic behaviour of poroelastic media. The setup relies on three-dimensional digital image correlation, enabling the acquisition of full-field displacement data from the visible faces of a vibrating cubic material sample. The latter is placed in a vacuum chamber, loaded with a seismic mass and excited uniaxially. The observability and relevance of the three-dimensional displacement field is assessed by means of a numerical simulation. A homogenised fully anisotropic model is used, implemented using the finite element method. Thus, a set of material properties obtained using single-point data is considered as the reference configuration for the numerical method. Selected experimental and numerical results are presented, highlighting the importance and the advantages that full-field observations yield over single-point measurements.