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Simple Stresses: Force / Area

Simple stresses are the ratio of applied force to resisting area and include normal stress, shear stress, and bearing stress. Normal stress is perpendicular to the material area, shear stress acts parallel, and bearing stress is contact pressure. Suspension bridges experience these stresses as vehicle weight passes through the deck, stringers, suspension cables, and into the towers.

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Simple Stresses: Force / Area

Simple stresses are the ratio of applied force to resisting area and include normal stress, shear stress, and bearing stress. Normal stress is perpendicular to the material area, shear stress acts parallel, and bearing stress is contact pressure. Suspension bridges experience these stresses as vehicle weight passes through the deck, stringers, suspension cables, and into the towers.

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Simple Stresses

Simple stresses are expressed as the ratio of the applied force divided by the resisting area or

= Force / Area. It is the expression of force per unit area to structural members that are subjected to external forces and/or induced forces. Stress is the lead to accurately describe and predict the elastic deformation of a body.

Simple stress can be classified as normal stress, shear stress, and bearing stress. Normal stress develops when a force is applied perpendicular to the cross-sectional area of the material. If the force is going to pull the material, the stress is said to be tensile stress and compressive stress develops when the material is being compressed by two opposing forces. Shear stress is developed if the applied force is parallel to the resisting area. Example is the bolt that holds the tension rod in its anchor. Another condition of shearing is when we twist a bar along its longitudinal axis. This type of shearing is called torsion and covered in Chapter 3. Another type of simple stress is the bearing stress, it is the contact pressure between two bodies.

Suspension bridges are good example of structures that carry these stresses. The weight of the vehicle is carried by the bridge deck and passes the force to the stringers (vertical cables), which in turn, supported by the main suspension cables. The suspension cables then transferred the force into bridge towers.

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