Front Matter -- Continuum Mechanics ₆ Historical Background -- Theoretical Stress Analysis ₆ Basic Formulation of Continuum Mechanics. Theory of Elasticity -- Strain Gages ₆ Introduction to Electrical Strain Gages -- Strain Gages Instrumentation ₆ The Wheatstone Bridge -- Strain Gage Rosettes: Selection, Application and Data Reduction -- Optical Methods ₆ Introduction -- Optical Methods ₆ Interference and Diffraction of Light -- Optical Methods ₆ Fourier Transform -- Optical Methods ₆ Computer Vision -- Optical Methods ₆ Discrete Fourier Transform -- Photoelasticity ₆ Introduction -- Photoelasticity Applications -- Techniques that Measure Displacements -- Moiř Method. Coherent Ilumination -- Shadow Moiř & Projection Moiř ₆ The Basic Relationships -- Moiř Contouring Applications -- Reflection Moiř -- Speckle Patterns and Their Properties -- Speckle 2 -- Digital Image Correlation (DIC) -- Holographic Interferometry -- Digital and Dynamic Holography -- Index.

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Experimental solid mechanics is the study of materials to determine their physical properties. This study might include performing a stress analysis or measuring the extent of displacement, shape, strain and stress which a material suffers under controlled conditions. In the last few years there have been remarkable developments in experimental techniques that measure shape, displacement and strains and these sorts of experiments are increasingly conducted using computational techniques. Experimental Mechanics of Solids is a comprehensive introduction to the topics, technologies and m.

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