Society for Experimental Mechanics (SEM) is a professional organization for engineers and scientists studying the design and implementation of experiments to characterize materials, structures, and systems. Formed in 1943 as the Society for Experimental Stress Analysis (SESA), early work focused on methods such as
photoelasticity
In materials science, photoelasticity describes changes in the optical properties of a material under mechanical deformation. It is a property of all dielectric media and is often used to experimentally determine the stress distribution in a ...
and
strain gages. Society historical records refer to the society as SESA through the 1984 Fall SESA meeting in Milwaukee, WI and start referring the society as SEM with the 1985 Spring SEM meeting in Las Vegas, NV. The society has expanded to include topics including
modal analysis
Modal analysis is the study of the dynamic properties of systems in the frequency domain. It consists of mechanically exciting a studied component in such a way to target the Normal mode, modeshapes of the structure, and recording the vibration ...
,
digital image correlation,
Split Hopkinson pressure bar,
Residual stress
In materials science and solid mechanics, residual stresses are stresses that remain in a solid material after the original cause of the stresses has been removed. Residual stress may be desirable or undesirable. For example, laser peening im ...
, and
biomaterial
A biomaterial is a substance that has been Biological engineering, engineered to interact with biological systems for a medical purpose – either a therapeutic (treat, augment, repair, or replace a tissue function of the body) or a Medical diag ...
s.
Technical Divisions
The society comprises seventeen technical divisions that program sessions at either the SEM Annual Conference or IMAC Conference, and develop content for publications:
* Applied Photoelasticity
* Biological Systems and Materials
* Dynamics of Civil Structures
* Composite, Hybrid & Multifunctional Materials
* Dynamic Behavior of Materials
* Fracture and Fatigue
* Inverse Problem Methodologies
* MEMS and Nanotechnology
* Modal Analysis
* Model Validation & Uncertainty Quantification
* Optical Methods
* Residual Stress
* Technical Committee on Strain Gages
* Thermomechanics and Infrared Imaging
* Time Dependent Materials
* Sensors and Instrumentation
* The Western Regional Strain Gage Committee
Publications
SEM publishes proceedings volume from the SEM Annual Conference and IMAC Conference with its publishing partner
Springer Science+Business Media
Springer Science+Business Media, commonly known as Springer, is a German multinational publishing company of books, e-books and peer-reviewed journals in science, humanities, technical and medical (STM) publishing.
Originally founded in 1842 in ...
.
SEM-published journals include:
* ''
Experimental Mechanics,'' which prints 9 issues annual of peer-reviewed manuscripts on advances in experimental mechanics.
* ''
Journal of Dynamic Behavior of Materials,'' which prints peer-reviewed manuscripts on materials in high strain-rate and extreme conditions.
* ''
Experimental Techniques
The design of experiments (DOE), also known as experiment design or experimental design, is the design of any task that aims to describe and explain the variation of information under conditions that are hypothesized to reflect the variation. ...
,'' which is a bimonthly publication on the development and application of experimental mechanics techniques.
See also
*
List of Fellows of the Society for Experimental Mechanics
References
External links
Society for Experimental Mechanics Home Page
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Engineering societies based in the United States