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Strength of Materials How Materials Carry Load Basic Modes of Loading A Material: Tension, Compression and Shear

Materials can carry loads in three basic modes: tension, compression, and shear. Stress is the load applied per unit area of a surface. Normal stress is stress acting perpendicular to a surface, while shear stress acts parallel. Shear stress can be calculated by dividing the applied shear force by the cross-sectional area it acts upon. Stress is measured in units of force per unit area, such as Pascals or Pounds per square inch.

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Strength of Materials How Materials Carry Load Basic Modes of Loading A Material: Tension, Compression and Shear

Materials can carry loads in three basic modes: tension, compression, and shear. Stress is the load applied per unit area of a surface. Normal stress is stress acting perpendicular to a surface, while shear stress acts parallel. Shear stress can be calculated by dividing the applied shear force by the cross-sectional area it acts upon. Stress is measured in units of force per unit area, such as Pascals or Pounds per square inch.

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STRENGTH OF MATERIALS How Materials Carry Load Basic modes of loading a material: Tension, compression and shear

Stress: Loads applied on a material are distributed over a surface. For example, the point load shown in the following figure might actually be a uniformly distributed load that has been replaced by its equivalent point load.

Stress is the load applied per unit area of the surface it is applied on. Normal stress is the stress normal to a surface and is denoted by the symbol " " (sigma). In the above figure the normal stress is uniform over the surface of the bar and is given by

Shear stress is the stress tangent to a surface. If in the following figure the shear stress (tau) that results in the shear load V is uniformly distributed over the surface, then the shear stress can be calculated by dividing the shear force by the area it is applied on.

The units of stress are the units of load divided by the units of area. In the SI system the unit of stress is "Pa" and in the U.S. system it is "Psi". Pa and Psi are related to the basic units through the following relations

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