Annotated digital image correlation displacement fields from fatigue crack growth experiments on aluminium alloys
We present a curated dataset of planar displacement fields from eight fatigue crack growth experiments obtained via full-field digital image correlation (DIC). The dataset covers multiple aerospace-grade aluminium alloys, specimen geometries, material orientations, and load configurations, providing a diverse experimental basis for data-driven fracture mechanics research. Crack tip locations are consistently annotated using an iterative correction procedure applied to all measurements, and fracture mechanical descriptors like stress-intensity factors are provided as additional labels. The dataset comprises 8,794 unique experimentally observed displacement fields and a total of 70,352 supervised samples generated through standardized interpolation and augmentation. DIC data is provided as uniformly interpolated displacement grids at three standardized resolutions (28 × 28, 64 × 64, and 128 × 128 pixels), each available in three dataset sizes to support scalable use cases ranging from educational applications to high-capacity model development. Accompanying metadata and a Python interface facilitate filtering, loading, and integration into reproducible machine learning and fracture mechanics workflows.
Authors
- Florian Paysan
- Eric Breitbarth (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3479-9143)
- David Melching (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5111-6511)
- Eric Dietrich
- Erik Schultheis (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0007-4728-7124)
- Ferdinand Dömling
Institutions
- Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e. V. (DLR) (DE)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Scientific Data
- Published
- 2026-06-26
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-026-07722-1
- Primary Topic
- Optical measurement and interference techniques
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
- Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung