Compression test is frequently used to define material behaviour. However, this test may be depending on different effects, for example friction, specimen inertia or local stress triaxiality. For this reason, a new design is proposed to analyse the previous effects and to try to minimize it on quantities measured as macroscopic stress and strain. To have a complete understanding, numerical simulations have been performed using finite element method (Abaqus/Standard and Abaqus/Explicit). It allows one to define the macroscopic behaviour and to have an access to the local values not accessible during experiments for a better understanding of the experimental measurements.