“…In this case, an inverse solution tool becomes highly desirable. There have been various inverse solution tools suitable for parameter identification as reviewed by Avril et al (2008), for instance, finite element model updating (FEMU) (Farhat and Hemez, 1993;Güner et al, 2012;Roux and Bouchard, 2015;Zhang et al, 2014) and the virtual fields method (VFM) (Chalal et al, 2006;Grédiac and Pierron, 2006;Notta-Cuvier et al, 2013;Pierron and Grediac, 2012;Pierron et al, 2010b). These methods take advantage of the full-field deformation measurement techniques such as digital image correlation (DIC) (Sutton et al, 2009), the grid method (Grédiac et al, 2016), moiré and speckle interferometry (Creath, 1985;Post and Baracat, 1981), from which more comprehensive information of material behavior can be extracted from a greater number of measurement points on the specimen surface.…”