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Thermal Methods
| The Thermal Methods Technical Division is an interest group, formed in 1990, and dealing with the use of thermal measurement for the characterization of materials and structure mechanical behavior. Current trends in thermal methods have primarily been focused on optical methods of measuring temperature changes in materials and structures from both active and passive thermal loading schemes and correlating these measurements to structural characteristics. So far, the group has concentrated on the sponsorship of technical forums leading to the exchange of information. In addition to the organization of technical paper sessions the Thermal Methods TD has supported the presentation of a short course on Thermoelastic Stress Analysis and been successful in promoting an annual gathering of experimentalists who regularly use thermal methods in structural experimental mechanics and NDE. Plans for the future include the continuation of these activities and the integration of Thermal Methods TD participation into application and education aspects of SEM society activities. |
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| Officers |
| Chair |
Richard John Greene
Strain Solutions Ltd.
richard.greene@strainsolutions.com |
| Vice-Chair |
David Backman
National Research Council
david.backman@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca |
THERMAL METHODS DIVISION (TMTD) - Updated May 2006
The Thermal Methods TD will be running two sessions at the 2006 annual conference, a papers session (five papers) and a combined papers and roundtable discussion session (beginning with three papers). There is an unusually good breadth of papers from both the industrial and academic spheres, and a wide range of active research groups represented.
These sessions continue to be the major exchange of research progress and user experience for the division. Enrichment of the TD website, particularly in terms of a comprehensive and regularly updated reference database for the subject area, will be presented in the roundtable session.
The Thermal Methods chapter of the applications volume of the new SEM handbook is well underway and has benefited from contributions and guidance from a number of industrialists and academics. A new thermal methods chapter in the theory volume of the handbook was proposed, and accepted, which will ensure that thermoelastic stress analysis will have good coverage in the new publication befitting its current usage as both a research tool and a recognized industrial analysis technique.
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