IOP Groups

The Stress and Vibration Group

The Stress and Vibration Group represents all interests concerned with the determination and appraisal of stresses and strains in homogeneous and composite bodies, including fracture mechanics and damage assessment, and the vibrational characteristics of components and structures. This remit covers a wide range of experimental, analytical and numerical work and includes elastic and elasto-plastic behaviour, time-dependent deformation, inverse problems and non-linear behaviour. Examples of topics of particular interest are: automated photoelastic analysis, the development and application of thermoelastic and thermographic techniques, acoustic emission studies, non-linear and parametric vibration analysis, modal analysis, system identification and advances in finite element and boundary element analysis. One-day meetings, with an appeal to both academia and industry, are a feature of the Group's activities. Recent meeting topics are listed on the events page.

The Group has an active involvement in three major international conferences: Modern Practice in Stress and Vibration Analysis, DAMAS- Damage Assessment of Structures and MoSS –Mechanics of Slender Structures.

The group is represented on the UK Forum for Applied Mechanics (FAM; http://www.appliedmechanics.org/). FAM coordinates the UK activities in the area of applied mechanics and elects the UK representatives for the European Association for Experimental Mechanics (http://www.eurasem.org/) that organises the major European conference on Experimental Mechanics at four yearly intervals.

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