17 - 19 February 2025
University of Bristol, UK
Registration deadline 31 January 2025
Experimental mechanics investigates the mechanical behaviour of engineering systems subjected to load. Measurement captures the system’s behaviour and imaging systems (full-field non-contact techniques) to derive physical quantities such as deformation, temperature, stress and strain and visualise defects and damage.
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Experimental mechanics approaches have much to offer, and this unit aims to provide a detailed insight to the physics and the methodologies used in the application and operation the techniques. The necessity for experimental data to calibrate and validate numerical models of systems manufactured from complex nonlinear inhomogeneous materials is increasing, hence the focus of the unit is on application to fibre reinforced polymer composites.
Aim
To provide a working knowledge of a range of techniques to allow the most appropriate to be selected for specific applications to enable students to:
- Understand testing procedures and the adaptations required to utilise the techniques presented.
- Apply modern full-field non-contact imaging techniques such as Thermoelastic Stress Analysis (TSA) and Digital Image - Correlation (DIC) for materials characterisation and performance assessment.
- Understand non-destructive evaluation (NDE) and structural health monitoring (SHM) including application of ultrasound, thermography, acoustic emission (AE), eddy current, and X-ray.
- Understand how the techniques can be combined with each other and with numerical models .
- Be able to manipulate and interpret data from experimental techniques to provide a detailed understanding of structural performance of fibre reinforced polymer composites and write-up the results in a detailed technical report.
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