MECHANICS OF

DEFORMABLE BODIES
 STATICS OF RIGID
BODIES
VS
MECHANICS OF
DEFORMABLE BODIES
 LOAD CLASSIFICATION
• DEAD LOAD
– Loads don’t change over time
– weight of materials and components
of structure.
• framing, flooring and roofing material
– weight of fixed service equipments.
• Plumbing, HVAC, etc.
• LIVE LOAD
– Loads can change over time.
– Movable objects.
• occupancy, flower pot on a deck etc.

– Environmental loads.
• wind, snow, seismic, and lateral soil
pressures.
• TENSILE LOAD
– Pulling action.
– Tends to elongate the member.
• COMPRESSIVE LOAD
– Pushing action.
– Tends to shorten the member.
• SHEARING LOAD
– load applied parallel to plane.
– material tends to slide with one
another.
• BENDING LOAD
– load applied to cause a material to
curve.
– one side compressing, one side
stretching.
• TORSIONAL LOAD
– load applied to cause a material to
twist.
• POINT LOAD
– load acting on a point in the beam.
–also known as concentrated load.
• UNIFORMLY DISTRIBUTED LOAD
– load spread over a beam where the
unit length is loaded to same extent.
• UNIFORMLY VARYING LOAD
– load spread over a beam where the
unit length varies uniformly.
• Triangular Load
 STRESS
• AXIAL STRESS
– acts perpendicular to the cross-
sectional area
–Normal Stress
• TWO TYPES
– Tensile Stress
–Compressive Stress
• Factors to be considered:

–Force/Load must be axial or

perpendicular to the cross-sectional
area
–Cross-section is constant
–Material is homogenous.
• SHEARING STRESS
– caused by forces that cuts the parallel.
–Tangential stress.
• TYPES
– Single Shear
– Double Shear
– Punching Shear
• BEARING STRESS
–contact pressure between two
separate bodies.