Experimental Stress Analysis

A course on 'Experimental Stress Ananlysis' is now being offered to students in Mechanical, Production, Civil and Aeronautical Engineering both at the undergraduate and the postgraduate levels. The need for a book covering the various aspects of Experimental Stess Ananlysis has been felt since long.

1. Basic Concept of Elasticity

2. Strain Gauges

3. Electrical Strain Gauges

4. Strain Rosettes

5. Strain Gauge Circuits, Instrumentation And Transducers

6. Semiconductor Strain Gauges

7. Two-Dimensional Photoelasticity

8. Three-Dimensional Photoelasticity

9. Scattered Light Photoelasticity

10. Grid Method

11. Moire's Fringe Methods

12. Similarity and Model Laws

13. Analogous Methods

14. Numerical Methods

15. Photo-Holo-Elasticity

16. Photo-Orthotropic Elasticity

Exercises

References

Suggested Reading

Subject Index