Prof. F. Pierron moves to the University of Southampton

May 1st 2012: Prof. F. Pierron is now Chair of Solid Mechanics at the University of Southampton, UK.

VFM book now available

The book entitled: The Virtual Fields Methods, by F. Pierron and M. Grédiac (Springer New-York) is now available on Springer's website

CAMFIT

A new version of camfit is now available (v 1.4, January 2011). It is now an executable Matlab program which makes the running easier and independent of packages and versions. The software is released under the GNU public license. Please check the "Download Camfit" page.

Training sessions

• SEM preconference course on the VFM
  The Virtual Fields Method will be presented at the SEM conference on June 10, 2012. More information here.
• BSSM course on experimental mechanics
  The Virtual Fields Method was presented and applied at the BSSM course on experimental mechanics held in Southampton 4-8 April 2011.

Invited keynote / plenary lectures at conferences

• MPSVA conference, 29-31 August 2012 in Glasgow, UK. Title: A novel photomechanical approach to dynamic testing of materials
• ISEM'12 conference, 8-11 November 2012 in Taipei, Taiwan. Title: Spatial mapping of the elasto-plastic behaviour of welds using full-field measurements and the Virtual Fields Method

Recent seminars

• CalTech (USA), 8 June 2012 (Prof. G. Ravichandran)
• Sandia National Laboratories (USA), 6 June 2012 (Dr Phillip Reu / Dr Sharlotte Kramer)
• Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge (UK), 24 May 2012 (Dr Stephen Walley)
• Beijing University of Technology (China), 21 October 2011 (Prof. Pengwan Chen, Shock Physics/Chemistry group)
• Tsinghua University (China), 21 October 2011 (Prof. Huimin Xie)
• Bath University (UK), 7 April 2011 (Dr Richard Butler)
• Southampton University (UK), 1 April 2011 (Prof. Janice Barton)
• Ecole Centrale de Nantes (FR), 10 March 2011 (Prof. Arnaud Poitou / Dr Ramzi Othman)
• Aalborg University (DK), January 2011 (Prof. Ole Thybo Thomsen)
• Oxford University (UK), May 2010 (Dr Clive Siviour)
• University of Exeter (UK), March 2010 (Dr Chris Smith)
• University of South Carolina (USA), February 2010 (Prof. Mike Sutton)
• University of Texas at Arlington (USA), February 2010 (Prof. Erian Armanios)