Handbook on Structural Testing

Title: Handbook on Structural Testing
Author: Robert T. Reese and Wendell A. Kawahara
ISBN: 0881731552 / 9780881731552
Format: Hard Cover
Pages: 402
Publisher: The Fairmont Press
Year: 1993
Availability: In Stock

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Providing a complete and comprehensive guide to today's structural testing methodologies, this handbook organizes and details the fundamental types of structural tests, including test methods and procedures as well as instrumentation. The tests described cover a wide range of applications, from large civil engineering structures and aircraft/aerospace structures to mechanical assemblies and miniature electronic components. You'll also find important information to help you understand the principles and restrictions which underlie the variety of measurement and diagnostic techniques used to perform structural tests. You'll learn how to assess and document measurement uncertainties, and how to insure that the appropriate safety, health and environmental safeguards have been appropriately addressed. The final chapter provides detailed example tests and structural testing case studies covering a variety of applications.

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Preface

Chapter 1 : Introduction
Chapter 2 : History
Chapter 3 : Test Purposes and Test Evaluation Criteria
Chapter 4 : Types of Structural Tests
Chapter 5 : Loads
Chapter 6 : Loading Systems
Chapter 7 : Test Controls
Chapter 8 : Overview of Experimental Methods and Techniques
Chapter 9 : Point Techniques, Gages, Transducers, and Sensors
Chapter 10 : Instrumentation and Data Systems
Chapter 11 : Experimental Methods - Full Field Techniques
Chapter 12 : Experimental Methods - Nondestructive Evaluation Techniques
Chapter 13 : Test Organization and Safety, Health, and Environmental Requirements
Chapter 14 : Measurement Uncertainties in Structural Testing
Chapter 15 : Structural Testing - Example Tests, Case Studies, and Applications

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