NPTEL : NOC:Experimental Stress Analysis - An Overview (Mechanical Engineering)

Co-ordinators : Prof. K. Ramesh


Lecture 1 - Overview of Experimental Stress Analysis

Lecture 2 - Optical Methods Work as Optical Computers

Lecture 3 - Stress, Strain and Displacement Fields

Lecture 4 - Completeness of a numerical solution

Lecture 5 - Fringe Patterns - Richness of Qualitative Information

Lecture 6 - Multi-Scale Analysis in Experimental Mechanics

Lecture 7 - Selection of an Experimental Technique

Lecture 8 - Introduction to Transmission Photoelasticity

Lecture 9 - Ordinary and Extraordinary Rays

Lecture 10 - Light Ellipse, Passage of Light Through a Crystal Plate

Lecture 11 - Retardation Plates, Stress-optic Law

Lecture 12 - Plane Polariscope

Lecture 13 - Jones Calculus

Lecture 14 - Circular Polariscope

Lecture 15 - Determination of Photoelastic Parameters at an Arbitrary Point

Lecture 16 - Tardy’s Method of Compensation

Lecture 17 - Calibration of Photoelastic Materials

Lecture 18 - Fringe Thinning Methodologies

Lecture 19 - Fringe Ordering in Photoelasticity

Lecture 20 - Miscellaneous Topics in Transmission Photoelasticity

Lecture 21 - Three Dimensional Photoelasticity

Lecture 22 - Overview of Digital Photoelasticity

Lecture 23 - Introduction to Photoelastic Coatings

Lecture 24 - Correction Factors for Photoelastic Coatings

Lecture 25 - Coating Materials, Selection of Coating Thickness, Industrial Application of Photoelastic Coatings

Lecture 26 - Calibration of Photoelastic Coatings, Introduction to Brittle Coatings

Lecture 27 - Analysis of Brittle Coatings

Lecture 28 - Introduction to Strain Gauges

Lecture 29 - Strain Sensitivity of a Strain Gauge, Bridge Sensitivity, Rosettes

Lecture 30 - Strain Gauge Alloys, Carriers and Adhesives

Lecture 31 - Performance of Strain Gauge System

Lecture 32 - Temperature Compensation, Two-wire and Three-wire Circuits

Lecture 33 - Strain Gauge Selection

Lecture 34 - Bonding of a Strain Gauge

Lecture 35 - Soldering, Accounting for Transverse Sensitivity Effects

Lecture 36 - Correction Factors for Special Applications

Lecture 37 - Special Gauges