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
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 material, where it gives ...
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. Examples would include measuring the vibration of a car's body when it is attached to a shaker, or the noise pattern in a room when excited by a loudspeak ...
,
digital image correlation Digital image correlation and tracking is an optical method that employs tracking and image registration techniques for accurate 2D and 3D measurements of changes in images. This method is often used to measure full-field displacement and strains ...
,
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 i ...
, and
biomaterial
A biomaterial is a substance that has been 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 diagnostic one. As a science, biomateria ...
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 ...
.
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, DOX, 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. The term is generally associ ...
,'' which is a bimonthly publication on the development and application of experimental mechanics techniques.
See also
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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