Chapter 3 Load and Stress Analysis Lecture Slides
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Chapter Outline
Shigley’s Mechanical Engineering Design
Stress
Normal stress
is normal to a surface, designated by
s
Tangential shear stress
is tangent to a surface, designated by
t
Normal stress acting outward on surface is
tensile stress
Normal stress acting inward on surface is
compressive stress
U.S. Customary units of stress are pounds per square inch (psi)
SI units of stress are newtons per square meter (N/m
2
)
1 N/m
2
= 1 pascal (Pa)
Shigley’s Mechanical Engineering Design
Stress element
Represents stress
at a point
Coordinate directions are arbitrary
Choosing coordinates which result in zero shear stress will produce principal stresses
Shigley’s Mechanical Engineering Design