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Calculate whether a polycarbonate plate can withstand a certain force
I need to calculate whether a polycarbonate sheet can withstand a certain maximum force. The force is an impact force on any one point of the sheet at any given time. All I have are the Young's ...
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Stress State in Indentation Test?
I am trying to use FEA for modeling the indentation of a hyperelastic material with Ogden model.
My question is: Can we consider Ogden's uniaxial stress for the modeling?
I have found some articles ...
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Why does fatigue crack growth require unloading?
When a crack has been initiated in a material, further loading of the material causes stress concentrations at the crack tip. This high stress causes the material to break at the tip and the crack ...
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Bending moment in Euler-Bernoulli finite Element
I'm trying to calculate the bending moment distribution on a fixed-fixed Euler-Bernoulli beam. It is known that interelement nodes show different values for the bending moment. What is customary to do ...
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Unexpected stress concentration results
I've run some stress simulations but I keep getting some unexpected results. I have 3 parts connected using 4 bolts as follows:
A torque of 1N is applied to the hole on the right to simulate a hung ...
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Why do we use the strain-controlled test for the compressive strength of concrete?
As you all now, a typical stress-strain curve for concrete under compression can be seen in any reinforced concrete design textbook. The decreasing part of the curve (post-peak) can be obtained by ...
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Is it feasible to mount a 40kg shelf on a rotating and sliding pole?
I want to build a shelf that can I can place near a wall and still be able to rotate it around 180 degrees. I therefore would want to mount the shelf on a rotating pole and to reduce the needed ...
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Physical Significance of Max Shear Stress in a Rod in Compression
For a rod in compression, the max shear stress at a point is $\pm\sigma_x/2$, i.e. half the compressive stress applied at either end.
This value is obtained using the equation for $\sigma_\theta$, ...
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Double Shear Stress butt joint
A double shear butt joint is shown below in the diagram 4 plates are held together by two bolts. The applied force is 42KN. Determine the shear stress within the joint
$$\begin{align}
a &= 2 \...
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Determine Bolt dia from Shear stress and force
The Diagram below shows a lap joint where two plates are held together by a bolt. The applied force (F) is $42~\text{kN}$ and the shear stress is $593~\frac{\text{N}}{\text{m}^2}$ Assuming that the ...
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Twist “buckling” critical load
I have a very long beam which is subjected to a torque (I have the moments and shear forces with respect to X along the beam). I can calculate the critical load when the beam would bend if it was ...
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Maximum stress point
I want to determine the point where the maximum stress is located. Also, I want to know how this kind of questions is answered.
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How do I determine what hardness to change the bearing or the track?
We have a project that requires us to use a qty of 4, Ć2" yoke roller bearings mounted two per side on a trolley that roll on a steel track. The maximum total weight that we estimate on the track at ...
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Understanding compatibility of strains
In mechanics, we have the so called compatibility conditions, which quarantee that when a body deforms, the strains are "compatible" in such a way to no discontinuities or gaps for inside the body as ...
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Calculating the Thickness of a Glass Tube which contains a Vacuum
I am looking for borosilicate glass tubes which can be used to contain a vacuum, so the top is sealed and then there is a vacuum pump at the bottom where the edges are also sealed, effectively making ...
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Does the volume change under the tensile or compressive stress?
This confusion arise because my teacher says that volume does not change under tensile/compressive stress within the elastic limit of the material ( consider metal here). But as far as I can see via ...
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Why does stress act a point instead of on an entire area normal to the stress?
I've often heard stress acts at a point and not on an entire cross-sectional area to which the load is applied normally.
Im a little confused here, Let us consider an area of cross-section ...
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What is the difference between $K$ ,$K_{IC}$ and $K_t$?
I have seen three representation of stress concentration factor values $K$,$K_{IC}$ and $K_t$ now all that I know is $_I$ in suffix represents opening mode of crack.The suffix $t$ stands for tip....
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Calculating Forces using equations of equilibrium
The homogeneous bar shown in Fig. P-106 is supported by a smooth pin at C and a cable that runs from A to B around the smooth peg at D. Find the stress in the cable if its diameter is 0.6 inch and the ...
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Looking to design a cantilever support to hold up an 80kg projector
I need to make a support (preferably metal) for a projector to be fixed on the wall. The projector size is:
Width: 0.7m
Length: 1.1m
Weight: 80kg
If anyone knows how i can solve this please let me ...
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What does stress analysis of 3D printed parts reveal vs their normal counterparts?
I have seen videos or heard about 3D printed buildings, 3D printed space shuttle parts and more. There seems to be a lot of craze developing around 3D printed manufacturing.
I have never heard anyone ...
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Why is pure shear a “shear”?
If one looks up the meaning of shear strain, most sources talk about this situation:
That is, a force acts along a surface of an element at it is elongated, turning a rectangle into a rhombus. ...
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How is the stress concentration factor calculated in FEM?
I have written my own finite element code for a linear elastic (plane stress) problem consisting of a plate with a circular hole in the middle, fixed on one side, having a tensile force acting on the ...
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Shouldn't brittle materials be the ones failing under shear deformations?
It is known that brittle materials tend to fail under normal stresses, that is, tensile or compressive stresses. Brittle materials often are bound together into crystals by ionic bonds between atoms, ...
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Why is deviatoric stress the one causing distortions?
I'm reading this text on stress.
It is mentioned that the Cauchy stress tensor can be split into a sum of two other tensors: hydrostatic pressure $\pi$ and deviatoric stress. Hydrostatic pressure is ...
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Locations of max stresses in a circular beam?
If a torque and axial force is applied to a beam with a circular cross section, where along the cross section of the circular beam is the location of the max shear stress, max bending moment, max ...
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What really is so special about principal stresses or stress invariants?
At any point inside a structural element under deformation, we can always find three planes such that when we define a coordinate system with basis vectors lying on those planes, the shear stresses at ...
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Pressure design thickness and how relates to hoop stress
Stress = Force / Area
Lets see with static force... what happens to stress output when decrease the area.
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Bearing stress v/s crushing stress
What is "Bearing stress" and Is it different from Crushing stress?
If yes explain How?
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When does an element come under Bearing Stress?
This question came to my mind while studying knuckle joint ...
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Along which direction is the area moment of inertia taken in bending moment equation?
Is it in the same direction of the applied load or in the co-planar perpendicular direction to the load applied?
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Is stress a vector or scalar?
I have seen some theories saying stress is a scalar. I don't understand why. Anyone can explain.
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Can I combine two shear-stresses acting on one plane?
For example, I have an axial force and a torsion force applied on a rock socket installed in bedrock. If I am considering the side friction between socket and rock as a resistance, the socket surface ...
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How to find the diameter of bolts in a flanged joint?
So I'm given this question with the following diagram:
Two sections of a pipe are joined in a flanged joint as shown in the Figure below. The difference in pressure from interior to exterior is 2 MPa....
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Engineering stress and true stress
I'm confused as to what is the difference between the above said stresses and their corresponding strains. If possible can anybody explain in detail what is engineering stress
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Thermal expansion of a hole in a plate with a temperature gradient
I have a rectangular metal plate with a hole in it (with diameter of 300 mm). The plate has a temperature gradient going from one of its short sides to the other, I can measure the temperature ...
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Deflection of Rectangular Plate with 2 Simply Supported Edges
As shown in the figure provided, a Uniform load acts upon a rectangular plate with edges at Y = 0 and Y = b which are simply supported.
Using this form of the Plate Equation:
$\frac{\partial^4 \...
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How to compute core stress in honeycomb structure?
Assume I have a honecomb(sandwich) panel under distributed normal load. Each edge of this panel is simply supported(pinned) as on the picture below:
The problem is how to find the core stresses Ļ-z (...
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how did Abaqus integrate the predefined field (stress) into the FEA formulation
The formulation based on the dynamic virtual work equation is
Several boundary conditions can be applied. One of them which Abaqus provided is predefined field (stress). It gives the stress tensor ...
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Why do stress concentrations really occur?
From doing some research I've learned that internal stresses inside an object can "concentrate" on sharp edges, as shown in the above picture. For that reason we often make fillets so that the change ...
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Does same stress always produce same strain?
I am reading pure bending from Beer Johnston's mechanics of materials.There,a
prismatic member having a plane of symmetry was subjected to equal and opposite couples M and M'acting in that plane.It ...
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Thin or thick wall for expanding rubber pressure cylinder
If I want to expand a rubber cylinder by a certain internal volume - with all else held constant (type of material, length and radius (without constraining it), etc.) will a thinner or thicker walled ...
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Finding Stress Concentration Factor when (D/d) ratio is not on a table?
So we have this homework problem, it is a rectangular filleted bar and we have to find the minimum thickness. I go and calculated the ratios but here's the problem: (D/d) = 1.375. What may the problem ...
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hoop stress on a thin glass window
A common problem with ultra-high vacuum viewport windows is that often the window material deforms, into a saddle or Pringles chip shape. .
An engineer from a viewport manufacturer explained to me ...
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Mechanics of Solids / Strength of Materials
I have shared a question from mechanics of solids and my solution with it, as you can see I am trying to take the derivative of the stress equations to find the min, max points but its going wrong. I ...
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Derivation of Bimetallic Strip Stress in Roark's Formulas
I am trying to understand some analytic expressions given in the handbook Roark's Formulas for Stress and Strain for bimetallic strip stresses. Namely, Roark's Formulas give the formulas
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stress in X- and Y-direction
A steel parallelepiped with a square cross-section fits exactly into the cavity.
it's loaded from the top surface(see picture).
how can I calculate the stress in X- and Y-direction if the strain in X- ...
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Does tunnel lining made of cast iron tubings actually accept all the mechanical loads?
Here goes a recently opened underground railway station in Moscow, Russian Federation (image is from here)
On the left is an undecorated (just painted and it will likely remain this way) tunnel wall. ...
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Is youngs modulus a derivative of stress and strain?
From This page it can be seen that young's modulus is given by,
E = (Īstress) / (Īstrain)
Which means E is a point function, that changes as the strain in member is increased.
I am feeling ...
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How does stiffness/rigidity affect the bending moment of a beam
My question may sound silly as itās mainly good sense but I may be mixing things up.
Letās consider a flexible cantilever beam of a given length and material is fixed at one end and free at the other ...
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addition of non paralle shearing forces and stresses
I would like to ask for help regarding the summation of non parallel shearing forces acting on an elastic body.
In the image force F (Left to right direction,in yellow) acts on the top horizontal ...
