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Contents of this Book

PART A - Solid Mechanics Topics


Part A presents topics that fall within the purview of solid mechanics. The first five chapters cover familiar ground, but the next four present new material systems along with the new topics of MEMS and NEMS. The last two chapters describe methods of interpreting the results of tests.

  1. Analytical Mechanics of Solids
  2. Materials Science for the Experimental Mechanist
  3. Polymers and Viscoelasticity
  4. Composite Materials
  5. Fracture Mechanics
  6. Active Materials
  7. Biological Soft Tissues
  8. Ionic Polymer-Metal Composites
  9. MEMS and NEMS
  10. Hybrid Methods
  11. Statistical Analysis of Experimental Data

PART B - Contact Methods

Part B starts with three practical chapters on the ‘backbones’ of experimental solid mechanics – strain gages and extensometers – followed by another mainstay – residual stress measurement. Nanoindentation is becoming more widely used for material property determination as is atomic force microscopy.

  1. Electrical Resistance Strain Gages
  2. Extensometers
  3. Fiber Strain Gages
  4. Residual Stress Measurement
  5. Nanoindentation
  6. Atomic Force Microscopy

PART C - Noncontact Methods


Part C is an overview of the rich field of optical methods in the first eight chapters ranging from modern versions of established such as photoelasticity to newer ones based on image analysis. Non-contacting methods at other wavelengths are described in the last three chapters.

  1. Basics of Optics
  2. Image Analysis and Processing
  3. Digital Image Correlation
  4. Geometric Moiré
  5. Moiré Interferometry
  6. Speckle Methods
  7. Holography
  8. Photoelasticity
  9. Thermoelastic Stress Analysis
  10. Photoacoustic Characterization of Materials
  11. X-Ray Stress Analysis
  • Preliminaries
    704
    • Polarization
      704
    • Birefringence
      704
    • Retardation Plates
      705
  • Transmission Photoelasticity
    705
    • Physical Principles
      705
    • Stress-Optic Law
      706
    • Fringe Contours in a Plane Polariscope
      706
    • Jones Calculus
      707
    • Ordering Of isoclinics
      708
    • Ordering Of Isochromatics
      709
    • Calibartion Of Model Materials
      709
  • Variants Of Photoelastcity
    710
    • Three-DImensional Photoelasticity
      710
    • Dynamics Photoelasticity
      714
    • Reflection Photoelasticiy
      715
    • Photo-orthotropic Elasticity
      717
    • Photoplasticity
      718
  • Digital Photoelasticity
    719
    • Fringe Multiplication and Fringe Thinning
      719
    • Phase Shifting in Photoelasticity
      720
    • Ambigutiy in Phasemaps
      723
    • Evaluation of Isoclinics
      725
    • Unwrapping Methodologies
      727
    • Color Image Processing Techniques
      729
    • Digital Polariscopes
      730
  • Fusion of Digtial Photoelasticity Rapid Prototyping and Finite Element Analysis
    732
  • Interpretation of Photoelasticity Results
    734
  • Stress Separation Techniques
    735
    • Shear Difference Techniques
      735
    • Three-Dimensional Photoelasticity
      736
    • Reflection Photoelasticity
      736
  • Closure
    737

Part D - Applications


Part D presents applications of the methods and topics of the three previous parts to selected topics – all of which are new and important areas of modern technology. These are examples that demonstrate the breadth and depth of experimental solid mechanics.

  1. Optical Methods
  2. Mechanical Testing at the Micro/Nano Scale
  3. Biological Tissue Testing
  4. Biomedical Devices and Biologically Inspired Materials
  5. High Strain Rate and Impact Testing
  6. Delamination Mechanics
  7. Structural Testing Applications
  8. Electronic Packaging