In continuum mechanics, stress is a physical quantity that describes forces present during deformation. For example, an object being pulled apart, such...

and those of experimental solid mechanics to characterize the material's resistance to fracture. Theoretically, the stress ahead of a sharp crack tip becomes...

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...

between the surfaces (shear stress). Normal contact mechanics or frictionless contact mechanics focuses on normal stresses caused by applied normal forces...

applications of solid mechanics is the Euler–Bernoulli beam equation. Solid mechanics extensively uses tensors to describe stresses, strains, and the relationship...

condition Stress (mechanics), the internal forces that neighboring particles of a continuous material exert on each other Oxidative stress, an imbalance...

properties. An additional area of continuum mechanics comprises elastomeric foams, which exhibit a curious hyperbolic stress-strain relationship. The elastomer...

mechanics, the Cauchy stress tensor (symbol σ {\displaystyle {\boldsymbol {\sigma }}} , named after Augustin-Louis Cauchy), also called true stress tensor...

strength of materials (also called mechanics of materials) typically refers to various methods of calculating the stresses and strains in structural members...

mechanics is a branch of soil physics and applied mechanics that describes the behavior of soils. It differs from fluid mechanics and solid mechanics...

tensor, in continuum mechanics Viscous stress tensor, in continuum mechanics Stress–energy tensor, in relativistic theories Maxwell stress tensor, in electromagnetism...

In continuum mechanics, the maximum distortion energy criterion (also von Mises yield criterion) states that yielding of a ductile material begins when...

In fracture mechanics, the stress intensity factor (K) is used to predict the stress state ("stress intensity") near the tip of a crack or notch caused...

solid mechanics, a stress concentration (also called a stress raiser or a stress riser or notch sensitivity) is a location in an object where the stress is...

Contact mechanics is the study of the deformation of solids that touch each other at one or more points. This can be divided into compressive and adhesive...

theory Moiré pattern Shear modulus Shear stress Shear strength Strain (mechanics) Stress (mechanics) Stress measures Truesdell, C.; Noll, W. (2004). The...

Structural mechanics or mechanics of structures is the computation of deformations, deflections, and internal forces or stresses (stress equivalents)...

(material) Stress (mechanics) Stress measures, ways to quantify mechanical stress Structural testing List of bank stress tests, lists major bank stress testing...

Newton's law of viscosity, that is, it has variable viscosity dependent on stress. In particular, the viscosity of non-Newtonian fluids can change when subjected...

modulus Infinitesimal strain theory Linear elasticity Solid mechanics Stress (mechanics) Sadd, Martin H. (2005). Elasticity: Theory, Applications, and...

In mechanics, a cylinder stress is a stress distribution with rotational symmetry; that is, which remains unchanged if the stressed object is rotated about...

hardening exponent. In solid mechanics, the yield point can be specified in terms of the three-dimensional principal stresses ( σ 1 , σ 2 , σ 3 {\displaystyle...

materials is the object of fracture mechanics. Fracture strength, also known as breaking strength, is the stress at which a specimen fails via fracture...

In mechanics, strain is defined as relative deformation, compared to a reference position configuration. Different equivalent choices may be made for...

solution Plasticity (physics) Signorini problem Spring system Stress (mechanics) Stress functions Slaughter, William S. (2002). The Linearized Theory...

per unit area, generally a measurement of pressure, which in mechanics corresponds to stress. The pascal and therefore elasticity have the dimension L−1⋅M⋅T−2...

Shear stress (often denoted by τ, Greek: tau) is the component of stress coplanar with a material cross section. It arises from the shear force, the component...

In materials science and continuum mechanics, viscoelasticity is the property of materials that exhibit both viscous and elastic characteristics when...

continuum mechanics, the most commonly used measure of stress is the Cauchy stress tensor, often called simply the stress tensor or "true stress". However...

solving physics problems in areas such as mechanics (stress, elasticity, quantum mechanics, fluid mechanics, moment of inertia, ...), electrodynamics...