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77 Questions

Why exactly does a washer help distribute the stress around a bolt?

What is the purpose of building foundations?

Why are truss bridges the way they are?

Why does column buckling occur when the load is parallel to the column?

Definition of buckling as a sudden deformation

Mechanical advantage of the 3-ring release system

Why is tensorial shear strain half of engineering shear strain?

Why do stress concentrations really occur?

Why afterburners are needed instead of burning more fuel inside the turbine?

What is the purpose of end plates when connecting beams together?

Why is pure shear a "shear"?

Why is the stress distribution on concrete approximated like this?

Why is fillet weld assumed to be in a state of pure shear stress?

Why is local yielding considered the limiting case in context of buckling in Eurocode?

What is the difference between plastic and compact cross sections?

Why is the yield strength of steel assumed to be less for a thicker element?

Probability of structural failure

Why do cold formed sections buckle differently from hot finished?

What really is so special about principal stresses or stress invariants?

Friction clutch and the force required

Why aren't there moments in truss bridges?

Why would the flexural modulus be different than the elastic modulus?

What is the physical significance of bolt elongation length?

Why doesn't prestressed concrete crack at the top before the load is applied?

What is the use of secant modulus?

What is the difference between to Eurocode design equations (6.10a and 6.10b)?

Why isn't von Mises criterion valid when compressive and tensile yield stresses differ?

What is the structural factor in context of wind loads?

Why are combination load factors necessary? [closed]

How can a curve in Gabrielli-Von Karman graphs curve down?