Society for Experimental Mechanics

Society for Experimental Mechanics
Founded 1943
Type Professional Organization
Focus Experimental Mechanics
Location
Area served
Worldwide
Method Conferences, Publications
Members
1,600
President
Nancy Sottos
Key people
Kristin Zimmerman (Acting Executive Director)
Website www.sem.org

Society for Experimental Mechanics (SEM) is a professional organization for engineers and scientists studying the design and implementation of experiments to characterize materials, structures, and systems. Formed in 1943 as the Society for Experimental Stress Analysis (SESA), early work focused on methods such as photoelasticity and strain gages.[1] Society historical records refer to the society as SESA through the 1984 Fall SESA meeting in Milwaukee, WI[2] and start referring the society as SEM with the 1985 Spring SEM meeting in Las Vegas, NV.[3] The society has expanded to include topics including modal analysis, digital image correlation, Split Hopkinson pressure bar, Residual stress, and biomaterials.

Technical Divisions

The society comprises seventeen technical divisions that program sessions at either the SEM Annual Conference or IMAC Conference, and develop content for publications:[4]

Publications

SEM publishes proceedings volume from the SEM Annual Conference and IMAC Conference with its publishing partner Springer Science+Business Media. SEM-published journals include:

References

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