He explains that most stress can be categorized into four areas: “It’s important to understand the type of stress you’re ...

There are two main types of stress - normal stress, which acts perpendicular to a surface, and shear stress, which acts parallel to a surface. Strain is a measure of the displacements that occurs ...

This shear force is directly responsible for the shear stress τ on the x-face of a stress element at “a” in the positive y-direction. In class, we have used the Euler-Bernoulli theory of beams to ...

Here, you can easily see how the laminae slide with respect to each other in the absence of shear stress between the laminae. Beam with shear stiffness Now let's consider reconsider our laminated beam ...