Experimental Methods in Mechanics of Solids

Cloth hardcover, 705 pages, NOT ex-library. Weight 1.54kg. Gently aged, clean condition, free of inscriptions and stamps. Unmarked text, firm binding. Shelfworn dust jacket with scratches, sunning, short tears, frayed spine ends. -- Contents: I Plastic Properties of Metals -- 1 Basic Problems in Metals-Strength Testing [Tension Test. Random Distribution of Properties. Scale Effect; Compression Test; Special Methods of Investigation of Stress-Strain Relations] 2 Investigations in Complex Stress States [Metals Yield Conditions. Plastic Flow Rule; Hardening Hypotheses for Metals; Theory of Experiments on Plastic Yielding in Plane Stress States; Special Equipment for Testing Tubular Specimens; Testing of Cruciform Specimens; Experimental Investigation of the Initial Yield Surface for Metals; Effect of Plastic Deformation on the Shape of Yield Surfaces. Hardening in a Complex Stress State. Generalized Bauschinger Effect; Memory Effect Under Complex Loading; Plastic Deformation of Metals Under Low-Cycle Loading; Fatigue Strength Surfaces & Surfaces of Rheological Properties of Plastically Deformed Metals; Surfaces of Influence of Plastic Strain on Mechanical Properties of Metals] 3 Plastic Properties of Metals Under High Pressure [Tension Tests; Effect of Hydrostatic Pressure on Brittle-Ductile Metals; Practical Applications of the Effects of Pressure on the Ductility of Metals] 4 Effect of Strain Rates on the Plastic Properties of Metals [Investigations at Moderate & Higher & High Strain Rates] -- II Rheological Properties of Materials -- 1 Physical Foundations of Investigations [Role of the Time Factor in Tests & Investigations of Mechanical Properties; Influence of State Variables of a Material on the Intensity of Rheological Effects; Classification of Rheological Processes; Memory Effect in Rheological Processes; Influence of the Internal Structure of the Material on the Rheological Mechanism of Decohesion] 2 Quasi-Static Tests [Basic Tests of Rheological Properties of Metals & Polymers; Apparatus for Basic Tests of Rheological Properties; Strain & Stress Measurement, Determination of Moduli & Temperature Control; Analysis of Creep & Stress Relaxation Diagrams and Functions; Phenomenological Description of Basic Rheological Processes. Boltzmann's Principle of Superposition for Hereditary Media. Structural Models; Creep Hypotheses; Quasi-Static Tests Under Combined States of Stress, with Rheological Effects Considered; Principle of Time-Temperature Equivalence & Superposition] 3 Tests Under Changing Loads [Influence of the Rates & Accelerations of Loading & Strain; Kinetic Characteristics of Materials; Material Weariness Under Mechanical Fatigue. Dynamic Creep & Stress Relaxation; Vibrocreep] 4 Special Tests [Non-Isothermal Creep; Continuous Method of Creep Testing; Creep Tests of Plastics by Contact Methods; Methods of Testing Rheological Properties of Materials Optically Sensitive to Stress in Polarized Light; Influence of Chemically & Physically Active Media on Rheological Properties of Materials. Ageing & Temperature-Pressure Stabilization of Polymers; Influence of Irradiation on Rheological Properties of Structural Materials; Determination of Rheological Properties of Plastics by the EPR Method; Creep Tests of Plastics Under Random Loads] -- III Metal Fatigue -- 1 Fundamental Concepts & Fatigue Processes 2 Tests in the Low-cycle Range 3 Fatigue Effects 4 Fatigue Crack Growth Rate 5 Investigations of Fatigue Fracture Surfaces -- IV Optical Research Methods in Mechanics -- 1 Mathematical Foundations of Optical Research Methods 2 Photoelastic Methods [Plane & Three-Dimensional Structures; Photoelastic-Coating Method; Photoelastic Investigations of Dynamic Processes & Thermal Stresses] 3 Optical Interferometry Methods 4 Holographic Interferometry -- V Applications of the Moiré Method -- 1 Measurement of In-Plane Displacements 2 Plates & Shells 3 Special Methods & Applications 4 Deposition & Reproduction of Gratings 5 Summary.…