Currently I am working on a sandbox experiment to study the nature of salt domes. Now I want to determine the stress/strain fields based on camera images, is there any way other than PIV method to do this task? (I can not access a PIV system).
The strain ellipse ratio can be measured by drawing/marking original circles on the model before deformation that accommodate to ellipses after running the analogue model . the measurement can be done step wise. other methods are available for numerical modeling of deformation.
For our sandbox models, we did strain analysis by tracking the regular grid corners in the surface images. Please read our article in which you can find more details: