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This is the second paper in a series of three devoted to the application of scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) to mechanics problems. In this paper, improvements to the digital image correlation method are outlined, a technique that compares digital images of a specimen surface before and after deformation to deduce its two-dimensional surface displacement field and strains. The necessity of using the framework of large deformation theory for accurately addressing rigid body rotations to reduce associated errors in the strain components is pointed out. In addition, the algorithm is extended to compute the three-dimensional surface displacement field from STM data; also, significant improvements are achieved in the rate as well as the robustness of the convergence. For (STM) topographs, the resolution yields 4.8 nm for the in-plane and 1.5 nm for the out-of-plane displacement components spanning an area of 10 μm×10μm.
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Vendroux, G., Knauss, W.G. Submicron deformation field measurements: Part 2. Improved digital image correlation. Experimental Mechanics 38, 86–92 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02321649
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