Manuals

User Manual PD Digital Image Correlation

PD-DIC User Manual

Full-field displacement and strain measurement, and crack detection, from digital images. Covers system requirements, installation and license activation, the eight-step analysis workflow, the post-processing tools, file formats, and troubleshooting.

Windows 10 / 11, 64-bit Eight-step workflow admin@gertechnologies.com

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User Manual PD Field Recovery

Sensor Placement User Manual

Before the test: how many strain rosettes the test needs, and where they go. Covers the shared model steps, the load model, candidate positions and gauge constraints, the five search methods, how to read the error-against-sensor-count curve, and how to export a sensor plan for the laboratory.

Before the test Six-step workflow admin@gertechnologies.com

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User Manual PD Field Recovery

Field Recovery User Manual

After the test: full strain, displacement and stress fields, and the elastic constants, from strain measured at a handful of sensors. Covers geometry and CAD import, the peridynamic discretization, importing measured data, strain recovery, displacement reconstruction, material characterisation by the virtual fields method, and export.

After the test Seven-step workflow admin@gertechnologies.com

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User Manual PDDO-MultiPhysics

PDDO-MultiPhysics User Manual

Coupled 3D physics written as equations. Covers the interface, a first model, every node of the model builder and every entry of the problem file, CAD geometry and several materials, discretization, time stepping and solvers, results, the command line, and troubleshooting.

Windows 10 / 11, 64-bit 20 documented examples admin@gertechnologies.com

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Manuals for the remaining products are in preparation. In the meantime, each product page describes the workflow and settings in full, and our team will answer any question directly.