Mechanics of Materials

CE1201
Md. Syed-uz-zaman
Lecturer
Department of Civil Engineering
Ahsanullah University of Science and Technology

Normal Stress
 Introduction
• Mechanics of materials is a branch of mechanics that
studies the internal effects of stress and strain in a solid
body that is subjected to an external loading.

• Stress is associated with the strength of

the material from which the body is made.

• Strain is a measure of the deformation

of the body.
 Type of forces

• Normal force, N
• Acts perpendicular to the area.
• Developed when the external loads to push
or pull on the two segments of the body

• Shear force, V
• Shear force lies in the plane of the area.
• Developed when the external loads tend to
cause the two segments of the body to slide.
 Type of forces
• Torque or torsional moment, T
- Developed when the external loads tend to
twist one segments of the body with respect
to the other.
Torque-tendency of a force to rotate an object.
Torsion-Twisting of a object due to applied torque.

• Bending moment, M
- Cause by the external loads that tend to
bend the body about an axis within the
plane of the area.
 Stresses

• Stress is the internal force exerted by one part of

an elastic body upon the adjoining part.
• Stress has a dimension of Newton/m2
• Generally, they are 6 independent components of
stress at each point.
 Type of stress
• Type of stress
• Normal stress or uniaxial stress, σ - stress is
evenly distributed over the entire cross-section.
• Normal stress includes tensile and compressive
stress
F

A
• Shear stress, τ – results when a force tends to make part
of the body or one side of a plane slide past the other.

F

A
Type of stress: Shear Stress

F F
 
2A A
Type of stress: Bearing Stress
Bearing stress, τ – Bearing stress is a type of normal stress but it
involves the interaction of two surfaces. The bearing stress is the
pressure experience by the second surface due to the action
from the first surface. Example: the pressure between bolt and
plate at a joint.

F F
 
A tD
Example

Mpa

100mm

300000𝜋
300000𝜋
Example
Example: Solution

=800x9.81
=7848 N
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1N/m2 = 1pa
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Ex: safest
 180+26.56+45=251.56
360-251.56=108.44

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