Computational design tools and additive manufacturing have made it possible to design and produce parts with mechanical properties customised to the function of those. This makes it possible to produce parts that are not possible with conventional production methods.

Due to these new designs and the implementation of new hyper-elastic or visco-elastic materials, FEM analysis during the design process is becoming more important to understand the behaviour, limits or design benefits of the part. It is therefore important to carry out dynamic tests, impact tests, fatigue tests…

After performing all the tests and having optimised the design of the part until it satisfies the requirements, it is always necessary to perform an empirical test in order to validate all those analyses carried out with numerical methods.