Abstract
This talk provides a description of a current graduate course in experimental mechanics taught at Brown University. This course is designed for graduate students with a strong engineering background who want to learn more about the physical and mathematical principles behind experimentation. It includes the fundamentals of optics, optical interferometry, and imaging systems including Digital Volume Correlation and Particle Image Velocimetry. It will also include signal processing, and spatial and temporal filtering techniques. The goal of the course is to give students a quantitative appreciation of commonly used experimental methods in mechanics, their applications, limitations and theories. Students will be able to apply the theories learned in lectures to carefully designed laboratory experiments. As such the course is intended for all students with interests in continuum mechanics. The purpose of this talk is to give the audience an overview of how experimental mechanics can be integrated into the pedagogy of the classroom.
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I would like to thank Professor Michael Mello at CalTech for graciously providing most of the content of the interferometry teaching section. I would also like to thank him for his technical feedback regarding the course development and content in general. I would like to acknowledge Professor Paul Dimotakis at CalTech, on whose notes my section on signal processing and filtering techniques are based on. I would like to acknowledge my colleagues at Brown, Professors Guduru, Kim, Breuer, and Zia who I have worked closely with to develop the course. I would like to acknowledge Xiaopeng Lai, Max Monn, Insun Yoon as the graduate authors of the case study example presented in this proceeding.
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Franck, C. (2016). Experimental Mechanics for Graduate Students. In: Sciammarella, C., Considine, J., Gloeckner, P. (eds) Experimental and Applied Mechanics, Volume 4. Conference Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Mechanics Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22449-7_11
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