Links, EMA 611, Experimental Mechanics
* EMA611 return; eCow resources including laboratory method references and instructions.
* Rod Lakes Home

* Why test?
* disasters after U. Minnesota
* Aloha Airlines 243 abstract, image, stimulus, new materials.
* Airliner Composite tail, initial story after net composites
* Airliner Composite tail, follow up analysis after New Scientist
* American Airlines 191
* United Airlines 232
* Navy ship dead in the water
* Mars probe need for software test after BBC news
* Therac radiation device, more software failure after ComputingCases.
* More case studies, ethical aspects of engineering failures after Texas A and M.
* MTS inc.
* Wisconsin Structures and Materials Testing Lab


* For your reports
* Graph quality
* Graphs from scope: digital resolution
* Graph tutorial , a student's view, pdf on graphs via eCow
* Guidelines for reports.
* Writing guide
* Quotations, math and science.
* Books by Edward Tufte on graphs and presentations.
* Project ideas
* Pizza
* Pizza slice

* Elasticity, material properties
* Role of Poisson's ratio in three dimensional deformation.
* Compression of blocks: determination of modulus.
* Young's modulus of the elements, after web elements.
* Poisson's ratio of the elements, after web elements.
* Physical properties of materials via Physical Sciences Information Gateway
* Modulus density comparison pdf after Ashby

* Anisotropy
* Anisotropy see Dr. Bowman chapter 2 pdf, after Purdue U.
* Nye, J. F., Physical Properties of Crystals, Oxford, 1976.
* Lekhnitskii, S. G., Theory of elasticity of an anisotropic body, Mir, Moscow, 1981.

* Buckling
* Buckling notes after U. Washington.

* Viscoelasticity
* notes.
* Viscoelasticity survey links
* Demonstrations
* Lakes, R. S., "Viscoelastic measurement techniques", Review of Scientific Instruments, 75, 797-810, (2004). get pdf
* Book
* Viscoelasticity in bone and other materials
* Notes on wave velocity and attenuation pdf waves.

* Ultrasonic waves
* Basic concepts pdf ultrasound after Stanford
* Panametrics ultrasonic equipment now via Olympus NDT.
* Boston Piezo Optics Piezoelectric crystals; Introduction to piezoelectricity.


* Non-destructive testing (NDT)
* NDT net

* Resonant Ultrasound Spectroscopy (RUS)
* RUS diagram
* setup image,
* scan on scope,
* Modes of isotropic cube, after Demarest.
* Maynard pdf of Physics Today article by Julian Maynard
* RUS via R. Leisure; follow links for animations of motion.
* Industrial non destructive testing
* Measure damping via RUS, pdf, shear mode RUS pdf after Lakes.

* Holography
Holography was invented by Dennis Gabor who earned the Nobel Prize for his work.
Interferometry was invented by Albert Michelson who earned the Nobel Prize for his work.
* Holography links
* Laser lab image

*Broadband viscoelastic spectroscopy (BVS)
* BVS Instrument diagram
* BVS Instrument diagram 2
* BVS functions: image
* Broadband results graph
* BVS chamber image

* More resources
* Selected journals.
* Research
* Wave and vibration demonstrations after Dr. Russell of Kettering University.
* Composites news.
* Composites job opportunity.
* Department, university (UW).
* Other classes.