Abstract
This paper presents a new method to determine residual stress profiles in cables and other axisymmetric objects using digital image correlation and inverse modeling. 3D digital image correlation with two cameras and stereo-vision was used to determine full-field displacements resulting from cutting a slit in a disk made from cable insulation. These displacements were compared to predicted displacements in a finite element analysis of the cutting. Differences between nodal displacements and the corresponding measured displacements were used to construct a cost function which was iteratively minimized by changing the residual stress field used as initial condition in the finite element simulation.