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Determining strain with grids is one of the oldest and simplest methods of experimental stress analysis. Here, the method is reviewed. Various techniques that have been developed to print, record and analyze grids are discussed, and the types of problems to which the grid method has been applied are presented.
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Parks, V.J. The grid method. Experimental Mechanics 9, 27N–33N (1969). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02325141
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