Residual Stress, Thermomechanics & Infrared Imaging, Hybrid Techniques and Inverse Problems, Volume 9 of the Proceedings of the 2016 SEM Annual Conference & Exposition on Experimental and Applied Mechanics, the ninth volume of ten from the Conference, brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering. The collection presents early findings and case studies on a wide range of areas, including:Damage Analysis from Thermal MeasurementsQuantitative VisualizationStress Analysis from Thermal MeasurementsNew Approaches to Residual Stress MeasurementResidual Stress & Optical MethodsNon-homogeneous Parameters IdentificationGeneral Inverse MethodsResidual Stress Measurement by X-Ray Diffraction