In continuum mechanics, stress is a physical quantity that describes forces present during deformation. For example, an object being pulled apart, such...
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and those of experimental solid mechanics to characterize the material's resistance to fracture. Theoretically, the stress ahead of a sharp crack tip becomes...
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between the surfaces (shear stress). Normal contact mechanics or frictionless contact mechanics focuses on normal stresses caused by applied normal forces...
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Fluid mechanics is the branch of physics concerned with the mechanics of fluids (liquids, gases, and plasmas) and the forces on them.: 3 It has applications...
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condition Stress (mechanics), the internal forces that neighboring particles of a continuous material exert on each other Oxidative stress, an imbalance...
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applications of solid mechanics is the Euler–Bernoulli beam equation. Solid mechanics extensively uses tensors to describe stresses, strains, and the relationship...
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properties. An additional area of continuum mechanics comprises elastomeric foams, which exhibit a curious hyperbolic stress-strain relationship. The elastomer...
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mechanics, the Cauchy stress tensor (symbol σ {\displaystyle {\boldsymbol {\sigma }}} , named after Augustin-Louis Cauchy), also called true stress tensor...
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Strength of materials (redirect from Mechanics of materials)
strength of materials (also called mechanics of materials) typically refers to various methods of calculating the stresses and strains in structural members...
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mechanics is a branch of soil physics and applied mechanics that describes the behavior of soils. It differs from fluid mechanics and solid mechanics...
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