Experimental Stress Analysis (ESA) Lab

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Overview:

Equipment:

• 25 KN servo hydraulic universal testing machine

• Strain conditioners and data acquisition systems

• Drop weight testing machine

• Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscope with EDS

• Universal testing machine

• Hardness tester (Brinell, Vickers, Rockwell superficial)

• Poldi Portable Hardness Tester (Shore A and Shore D)

• Fatigue tester (rotating bending, and reverse bending)

Experiments:

• Application of strain gauge techniques: Lecture on strain gauge based methods, Cantilever beam and Portal frame experiments

• Application of Strain Gauge techniques: experiment on combined bending and torsion

• Applications  of  photoelasticity: demonstration  of  photoelastic techniques

• Applications of photoelasticity:  Calibration of the photoelastic constant, Determination of the stress field in a beam under bending

• Applications of Digital Image Correlation: Demonstration of DIC techniques, determination of strain fields in the gauge section of a polymeric dog-bone specimen under tension

• Applications of DIC: Determination of thermoelastic stress and strain fields using DIC

Relevant Information (if any):

Faculty: Dr. Sumit Basu

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