Keynote Speakers

Generation of analysis suitable B-Spline beam models from digital images

JC Passieux is a full professor of Computational Mechanics at INSA Toulouse, France. He develops high performance computational methods (domain decomposition, reduced order models, local/global coupling, Isogeometric Analysis). He has contributed to the development of finite element based and global digital image correlation (DIC) methods, identification from digital images, image-based models and data assimilation. He was co-chairman of the international conference Photomechanics 2018 in Toulouse. He is member of the steering committee of the Computational Solid Mechanics Association (CSMA, France). He is one of the founding members of the French PhotoMechanics Association.

Integrating 2D/3D images with numerical simulations for mechanical deformation analysis

Dr Fabrice Pierron has been Professor of Solid Mechanics at the University of Southampton since 2012. He is a specialist of the integration of image-based deformation mapping (like digital image correlation) with inverse identification (like the Virtual Fields Method) to design the next generation of mechanical tests. He has published more than 150 journal articles. He was Editor-in-Chief of the journal Strain (Wiley) for ten years and is a co-founder of the company MatchID NV (Ghent, Belgium), for which he now also works as R&D Director since 2021. Prof. Pierron is Fellow of the Society for Experimental Mechanics (SEM).