Mechanical Engineering

Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur

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Overview:
Equipment:
  • 25 KN servo hydraulic universal testing machine
  • Strain conditioners and data acquisition systems
  • Drop weight testing machine
  • Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscope with EDS
  • Universal testing machine
  • Hardness tester (Brinell, Vickers, Rockwell superficial)
  • Poldi Portable Hardness Tester (Shore A and Shore D)
  • Fatigue tester (rotating bending, and reverse bending)
Experiments:
  • Application of strain gauge techniques: Lecture on strain gauge based methods, Cantilever beam and Portal frame experiments
  • Application of Strain Gauge techniques: experiment on combined bending and torsion
  • Applications of photoelasticity: demonstration of photoelastic techniques
  • Applications of photoelasticity: Calibration of the photoelastic constant, Determination of the stress field in a beam under bending
  • Applications of Digital Image Correlation: Demonstration of DIC techniques, determination of strain fields in the gauge section of a polymeric dog-bone specimen under tension
  • Applications of DIC: Determination of thermoelastic stress and strain fields using DIC

Relevant Information (if any):

Faculty: Dr. Sumit Basu

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