Experimental Mechanics of Solids

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