Identification of material parameters in linear elasticity - some numerical results

In this paper we present some numerical results concerning the identification of material parameters in linear elasticity by dealing with small deformations. On the basis of a precise example different aspects of the parameter estimation problem are considered. We deal with practical questions such as the experimental design for obtaining sufficient data for recovering the unknown parameters as well as questions of treating the corresponding inverse problems numerically. Two algorithms for solving these problems can be introduced and extensive numerical case studies are presented and discussed