Work Life Balance is an issue increasingly recognized as of strategic importance to organisations and of significance to employees. WLB is a Human Resource Strategy, which is already recognized as the ultimate key for Human Resources Development among all the work systems. WLB addresses the concerns of improving employee satisfaction and motivation levels, strengthen workplace learning and development, for betterment in managing the change and adopting alien practices in the event of change. One of the important strategies to improve WLB is to create work culture which helps in maintaining an...

Rapid strides have been made in the use of digital image processing tech niques for data acquisition in photoelasticity in the last two decades. Techniques such as fringe thinning, fringe clustering, fringe tracing, phase shifting, polarization stepping and Fourier transform methods have significantly contributed to the automation of data acquisition. The recent developments in colour image processing and development of tricolour light source have added a new dimension. The use of time delay and integration (TDI) camera techniques has extended digital photoelasticity for dynamic analysis. Now...