“…However, strain errors increases if the specimen’s dimensions decrease [ 25 ]. Moving on to DIC, experimental studies have defined effective procedures to calibrate DIC systems and/or to process the acquired images [ 26 , 27 , 28 , 29 ], thereby improving measurement accuracy. Unfortunately, although DIC has been demonstrated to be accurate in measuring medium-large strain levels [ 30 , 31 , 32 , 33 , 34 , 35 , 36 ], non negligible errors have been found when measuring small (<0.1% or 1000 microstrain) strain values [ 37 , 38 , 39 , 40 ], i.e., of the same order of magnitude of strain that CPCs can withstand before fracture.…”