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High-Speed Imaging

See what happens between the frames

Impact, crash, drop and ballistic events resolve in microseconds. High-speed cameras capture them, and paired with DIC they turn that footage into measured strain and displacement.

Overview

Frame rate is only half the problem

A high-speed camera that records the event but cannot be synchronized to your measurement chain leaves you with video, not data. Trilion deploys Phantom and Photron cameras as measurement instruments: calibrated, triggered with the test, and feeding ARAMIS Optical Strain so every frame carries full-field displacement and strain.

That matters because the interesting part of a dynamic test is usually over before a conventional sensor has settled. Full-field capture at high frame rate lets you find where a structure failed, and when, rather than inferring it afterwards. Synchronization runs through the ARAMIS Controller.

Cameras

Phantom, for the fastest events

The Phantom TMX 7510 records 1280 x 800 at 76,000 frames per second and scales past 700,000 frames per second at reduced resolution, which is the range ballistics, blast and fracture work needs. The T4040 trades some of that speed for a 4.2 megapixel sensor, keeping enough spatial detail for full-field DIC across a large field of view.

The VEO 1310 is the portable option for field and range work, and the KT840 is built to stay installed inside a machine or test cell.

Phantom TMX series ultrahigh-speed camera
Photron FASTCAM Nova R high-speed camera body

Cameras

Photron, frame rate against light

The Photron Nova S and Nova R series balance frame rate against light sensitivity, which suits drop towers, vibration and longer events where lighting is constrained rather than unlimited.

Sensitivity matters more than headline frame rate whenever exposure time is short and the scene cannot be flooded with light. Pair either with GS Vitec QX lighting and the G8X controller.

Applications

Where high-speed capture earns its cost

Crash and sled testing, drop and impact, ballistic and blast, fracture and crack propagation, high-cycle vibration, and any test where a component fails faster than a conventional gauge can follow.

Used across aerospace, automotive, electronics and materials research programs where a single destructive test has to yield every measurement it possibly can. High strain rate work often pairs high-speed imaging with infrared on the same event.

High-Speed Imaging systems

The cameras Trilion deploys and supports in this category

Ready to measure a dynamic event?

Talk to an engineer about frame rate, field of view, lighting and synchronization for your test. Not ready to buy? Rent a system or book on-site training.