2134/22378 Jonathan Huntley Jonathan Huntley Roger M. Groves Roger M. Groves Nandini Bhattacharya Nandini Bhattacharya Editorial: photomechanics special issue Loughborough University 2016 Editorials Photomechanics Mechanical Engineering not elsewhere classified Mechanical Engineering 2016-09-08 09:58:20 Journal contribution https://repository.lboro.ac.uk/articles/journal_contribution/Editorial_photomechanics_special_issue/9561965 The term photomechanics refers to the use of light to determine distributions of quantities such as stress, displacement, strain and temperature in experimental solid and fluid mechanics. This special issue on photomechanics, comprising seven papers, provides a representative cross section of some of the current activity in this field, to illustrate trends in the technique development as well as new areas of application.