The book presents in a clear, simple, straightforward, novel and unified manner the most used methods of experimental mechanics of solids for the determination of displacements, strains and stresses. Emphasis is given on the principles of operation of the various methods, not in their applications to engineering problems. The book is divided into sixteen chapters which include strain gages, basic optics, geometric and interferometric moiré, optical methods (photoelasticity, interferometry, holography, caustics, speckle methods, digital image correlation), thermoelastic stress analysis, indentation, optical fibers, nondestructive testing, and residual stresses. The book will be used not only as a learning tool, but as a basis on which the researcher, the engineer, the experimentalist, the student can develop their new own ideas to promote research in experimental mechanics of solids.

Chapter 1. Electrical Resistance Strain Gages.- Chapter 2. Fundamentals of optics.- Chapter 3. Geometric Moiré.- Chapter 4. Coherent Moiré and Moiré Interferometry.- Chapter 5. Moiré patterns formed by remote gratings.- Chapter 6. The method of caustics.- Chapter 7. Photoelasticity.- Chapter 8. Interferometry.- Chapter 9. Holography.- Chapter 10. Optical Fiber Strain Sensors.- Chapter 11. Speckle Methods.- Chapter 12. Digital Image Correlation (DIC).- Chapter 13. Thermoelastic Stress Analysis (TSA).- Chapter 14. Indentation Testing.- Chapter 15. Nondestructive Testing (NDT).- Chapter 16. Residual Stresses - The Hole Drilling Method.