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Virtual testing is a method that simulates lab testing using multi-body dynamic analysis software. The main advantages of this approach include that the design can be evaluated before a prototype is available and virtual testing results can be easily validated by subsequent physical testing. The disadvantage is that accurate specimen models are sometimes hard to obtain since nonlinear components such as tires, bushings, dampers, and engine mounts are hard to model. Therefore, virtual testing accuracy varies significantly. The typical virtual rigs include tire and spindle coupled test rigs for full vehicle tests and multi axis shaker tables for component tests. Hybrid simulation combines physical and virtual components, inputs and constraints to create a composite simulation system. Hybrid simulation enables the hard to model components to be tested in the lab.

Recently, sampling moire method was developed to analyze the phase of a one-dimensional or two-dimensional grating on an object with high accuracy. In the method, several phase-shifted moire patterns are generated from one image of the grating. In order to analyze a shape by a stereoscopic method, it is necessary to find the corresponding points between the two images of the object recorded from different two cameras. It is possible to analyze the phase of the grating using the sampling moiré method and find the corresponding points as points with the same phase. It is also possible to analyze the displacement and strain from the corresponding point before and after deformation. This method is, therefore, suitable for shape and strain distribution measurement of a moving object. In this paper, a dynamic shape and strain measurement method using the sampling moiré method is proposed and a system for the measurement is developed.