InhaltsangabeIntroduction An overview of different measurement techniques Photoelasticity Grid method, moiré and deflectometry Holography Speckle interferometry Digital Image Correlation From displacements to strains An overview of identification methods Finite element model updating Constitutive law gap Virtual fields method Equilibrium gap Reciprocity gap Characterization of localized phenomena From microstructures to constitutive laws Thermographic analyses of the material behavior