Digital High-Speed Video Camera

Video: High-speed recording of the test of a crash absorber

The institute has several high-speed cameras. The usual frame rates range from 50 frames per second (fps) for quasi-static testing up to 240,000 fps in high-speed crash tests. Selected measurement signals can be recorded simultaneously by very fast transient recorders (1 GHz) and displayed synchronously.

The videos can be processed with special image processing programmes, e.g. for optical deformation analysis to obtain detailed information about deformations and displacements over time. Even three-dimensional deformations can be analysed without contact by using more than one camera.

Tecnical data Digital High-Speed Video Camera

  

Camera sensor

CMOS, 12 bit mono

Typical frame rates

50– 5,000  frames per second

Resolution at 20,000 fps

1024 x 1024 pixels

Resolution at 200,000 fps

384 x 176 pixels

Contact

Stefan Ritt

German Aerospace Center (DLR)
Institute of Structures and Design
Pfaffenwaldring 38-40, 70569 Stuttgart

Dorothea Schlie

German Aerospace Center (DLR)
Institute of Structures and Design
Pfaffenwaldring 38-40, 70569 Stuttgart