eng Science and Education Publishing American Journal of Mechanical Engineering 2328-4110 2016-12-19 4 7 445 449 10.12691/ajme-4-7-39 AJME20164739 article Martin Hagara martin.hagara@tuke.sk 1 Pavol Lengvarsky 1 Jozef Bocko 1 Peter Pavelka 1 Department of Applied Mechanics and Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Technical University of Ko?ice, Ko?ice, Slovakia This paper deals with the description of methodology for experimental non-contact investigation of stress fields in the area of contact mechanics using digital image correlation method. The measurement was realized in laboratory conditions via low-speed digital image correlation system. As the control software of mentioned digital image correlation system does not allow investigate and visualize stress fields, the authors used an additional application called Q-STRESS v.1.0 allowing compute several types of stress. The paper also briefly described the creation of numerical model in Ansys software. The Von Mises stress levels were in chosen location compared, whereby the results show agreement adequate for comparison of experimental and numerical modeling. http://pubs.sciepub.com/ajme/4/7/39/ajme-4-7-39.pdf contact mechanics stress analysis digital image correlation finite element analysis ansys workbench