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Stress
CHAPTER OBJECTIVES
• Review important principles of
statics
• Use the principles to determine
internal resultant loadings in a
body
• Introduce concepts of normal
and shear stress
• Discuss analysis and design

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1. Stress
1.1 INTRODUCTION
Mechanics of materials
• A branch of mechanics
• It deals with some elementary but relevant
materials and structures like beams and pressure
vessels
• It studies the internal effects (stress & strain) in a
solid body that is subjected to an external loading
• Study body’s stability when external forces are
applied to it

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1. Stress
1.1 INTRODUCTION

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1. Stress
1.2 EQUILIBRIUM OF A DEFORMABLE BODY

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1. Stress
1.2 EQUILIBRIUM OF A DEFORMABLE BODY
Support reactions
• for 2D problems

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1. Stress
1.2 EQUILIBRIUM OF A DEFORMABLE BODY
Equations of equilibrium

∑F=0
∑ MO = 0

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1. Stress
1.2 EQUILIBRIUM OF A DEFORMABLE BODY
Internal resultant loadings

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1. Stress
1.2 EQUILIBRIUM OF A DEFORMABLE BODY
Internal resultant loadings

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1. Stress
1.2 EQUILIBRIUM OF A DEFORMABLE BODY
Internal resultant loadings
• For coplanar loadings:

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1. Stress
PROBLEM
Determine the resultant internal normal force, shear
force and bending moment at point C and D in the
beam. Point D is 1.5 m to the left of point B

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1. Stress
PROBLEM
The forged steel clamp exerts a force of F = 900 N
on the wooden block. Determine the resultant
internal loadings acting on section b–b passing
through point A.

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1. Stress
PROBLEM
The force F = 400 N acts on the gear tooth.
Determine the resultant internal loadings on the
root of the tooth, i.e., at the centroid point A of
section a–a.

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1. Stress
PROBLEM
Determine the resultant internal loadings acting on
the cross section through point D and E of the
beam. Point D is 2.5 m to the right of point A and
point E is 2.5 m to the left of point B.

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1. Stress
PROBLEM
Determine the resultant
internal loadings acting on
the cross section through
point B of the signpost. The
post is fixed to the ground
and a uniform pressure of
500 N/m2 acts perpendicular
to the face of the sign.

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