CE 554 ASSIGNMENT 1. Show a three dimensional stress field with the help of a sketch showing various types of stresses.

2. What do you understand by a tensor? 3. Show that only six stresses (three normal and three shearing ones) are needed to show stress conditions at a point in a material. 4. Write strain components of a strain tensor. 5. What do you understand by a plain stress condition? 6. What do you understand by a plain strain condition? (ref. STRENGTH OF MATERIALS AND MECHANICS OF STRUCTURES BY B.C.PUNMIA VOLUME 2- CHAPTER 20 ELEMENTARY THEORY OF ELASTICITY) ANOTHER REF. MAY BE THE BOOK BY POPOV