eng Science and Education Publishing American Journal of Mechanical Engineering 2014-11-27 2 7 307 311 10.12691/ajme-2-7-29 AJME20142729 article Martin Hagara martin.hagara@tuke.sk 1 Róbert Huňady 1 Pavol Lengvarsky 1 Jozef Bocko 1 Department of Applied Mechanics and Mechanical Engineering, Technical University of Košice, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Košice, Slovakia The contribution deals with an experimental investigation of deformation fields of a specimen loaded by combined loading. The experiment was done using non-contact optical method of low-speed digital image correlation. This technique allows investigate displacement as well strain fields. The experimentally obtained results depicted in the paper in a form of color maps and graphs were verified by a numerical simulation performed in Ansys, where two types of meshing were used to demonstrate the coherence between experiment and simulation. http://pubs.sciepub.com/ajme/2/7/29/ajme-2-7-29.pdf digital image correlation full-field measurement strain gauge