Strain

Recent highly cited papers include:

Quantitative Error Assessment in Pattern Matching: Effects of Intensity Pattern Noise, Interpolation, Strain and Image Contrast on Motion Measurements
Y. Q. Wang, M. A. Sutton, H. A. Bruck and H. W. Schreier

Measurement of Fracture Parameters for a Mixed-Mode Crack Driven by Stress Waves using Image Correlation Technique and High-Speed Digital Photography
M. S. Kirugulige, H. V. Tippur

Multiscale Full-Field Strain Measurements for Micromechanical Investigations of the Hydromechanical Behaviour of Clayey Rocks
M. Bornert, F. Vales, H. Gharbi, D. N. Minh

The British Society for Strain Measurement have announced the winner of the 2010 Fylde Electronics Prize for the Best Paper published in Strain.

Congratulations to C. A. Sciammarella, L. Lamberti, F. M. Sciammarella, G. P. Demelio, A. Dicuonzo, A. Boccaccio for their paper: Application of Plasmons to the Determination of Surface Profile and Contact Strain Distribution, presenting a new methodology utilising 'evanescent illumination'.

The prize will be awarded at the forthcoming BSSM Annual Conference

For more information. please read the full press release published on behalf of The British Society for Strain Measurement

2011 highly accessed papers:

Evaluating Uncertainty in Residual Stress Measured Using the Deep-Hole Drilling Technique
D. M. Goudar, C. E. Truman and D. J. Smith

A New Static and Fatigue Compression Test Method for Composites
J. I. Bech, S. Goutianos, T. L. Andersen, R. K. Torekov and P. Brøndsted

Experimental Characterisation and Numerical Modelling of Hexagonal Honeycomb Cellular Solids under Multi-axial Loading
A. J. Lamb, A. K. Pickett and F. Chaudoye

This journal will be published online only from 2012

Effective from the 2012 Volume, Strain will be published in an online-only format.