ZEISS has detailed the ARAMIS Adjustable, a modular optical 3D measurement system built for non-contact deformation testing of materials, components and structures. The system pairs digital image correlation with point tracking to deliver full-field 2D and 3D coordinate data on parts under static or dynamic load.
The Adjustable Sensor's modular design lets engineers pick from a range of camera variants, lighting configurations and measuring volumes to match a specific test setup, rather than working around a fixed rig. Every ARAMIS sensor goes through an acceptance procedure based on VDI guidelines 2634-1 and 2626, which ZEISS builds into the delivery process itself. What's new here is that configurability: the same platform can be reconfigured for a tensile test bench one week and a full vehicle crash test the next.
On the materials side, ARAMIS covers tensile, shear, compression and three-point bending tests, along with high-speed and temperature testing. Because the measurement is non-contact and full-field, it sharpens the accuracy of derived material parameters and refines existing evaluation methods, including the determination of flow and forming limit curves. Some of those tests, ZEISS says, are only possible with a non-contact, high-spatial-resolution method like DIC.
For component and structural work, engineers use ARAMIS for stiffness analysis, vibration analysis, fatigue strength testing and crash testing, with results feeding directly into service life forecasts and geometry optimization. During a load test, the system captures a part's real, non-linear deformation behavior and compares it directly against finite element model data. The software imports FE data from ABAQUS, PAMSTAMP, LS-DYNA, ANSYS and AUTOFORM, aligning it in 3D space against the physical measurement.
ZEISS positions ARAMIS across automotive, aerospace, electronics, medical technology, power and energy, and civil engineering, citing uses from e-mobility lightweight construction to orthopedic implant development. The common thread is validation: as more industries lean on simulation earlier in development, optical systems like ARAMIS Adjustable become the check against real-world part behavior rather than a replacement for it.
