Compound Stresses and Strains
Compound Stresses and Strains
STRAINS
CONTENTS
Introduction
Principal Planes
Principal Stresses
Analytical method:
Graphical method:
Graphical method
ANALYTICAL METHOD
A body subjected to uniaxial direct stress
A body subjected to biaxial direct stress
Sign conventions:
All the tensile stresses and strains are taken as positive
whereas all the compressive stresses and strains are taken
as negative.
The shear stress which tends to rotate the element in the
clockwise direction is taken as positive and anticlockwise
as negative
STRESSES ON AN OBLIQUE SECTION OF A BODY
SUBJECTED TO A DIRECT STRESS IN ONE PLANE
(UNIAXIAL)
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