Subject Groups
The Stress and Vibration Group
The Stress and Vibration Group represent all interests concerned with the determination and appraisal of stresses and strains in homogeneous and composite bodies, including fracture mechanics and damage assessment, and the vibrational characteristics of components and structures. This remit covers a wide range of experimental, analytical and numerical work and includes elastic and elasto-plastic behaviour, time-dependent deformation, inverse problems and non-linear behaviour. Examples of topics of particular interest are: Automated photoelastic analysis, the development and application of thermoelastic and thermographic techniques, acoustic emission studies, non-linear and parametric vibration analysis, modal analysis, system identification and advances in finite element and boundary element analysis. One-day meetings, with an appeal to both academia and industry, are a feature of the Group's activities. Recent meeting topics have included Non-linearity in Engineering Dynamics and Smart Materials and Structures.
The Group has an active involvement in two major international conferences: "Modern Practice in Stress and Vibration Analysis" (tri-annually -next in Bath 2006) and "DAMAS- Damage Assessment of Structures" (bi-annually -next in Gdansk 2005). It is also represented on the European Association for Experimental Mechanics that organises the major European conference at four yearly intervals and maintains the EPSRC funded Strutural Integrity and Damage Assessment Network (SIDANET).
The pages for the Group are currently being transferred to the new Institute of Physics website. Until this process is complete the original pages for the Group can be accessed here.
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