Mechanical characterisation of metallic materials at intermediate strain rates is essential to calibrate and validate computational models for industrial applications such as high-speed forming processes i.e. hammer forging, blanking, forming, etc. The most common devices that perform medium high loading rate experiments are the servo-hydraulic universal testing machines Split Hopkinson bar sys...

Capacitive non-contact imaging of electric fields and potentials with micro-metre resolution can provide relevant insights into material characterisation, structural analysis, electrostatic charge bio-sensing applications. However, scanning potential microscopes have been confined to rigid single-probe devices, making them slow, prone mechanical damage complex fabricate. In this work, we presen...