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Engineering Basics
The Basics of Engineering made Simple
Simple Stress and Strain are fundamental concepts in engineering. All mechanisms and components used in engineering are exposed to external forces that either try to displace or deform the component. These may be actual forces from surrounding components or processes but they could also be from the physical environment that the component is operating in.
Newtons First Law states that an object will remain at rest or uniform motion unless acted on by an external force
The object will resist the external force though to keep its current state, this is where Newtons Third Law comes in.
Newtons Third Law states that when two bodies interact the forces in each will have the same magnitude but be in opposite directions
This resistance by the object sets up an internal force in the material which tries to counteract the external force. This action produces the stress in the object.
Simple Stress
Now that we know what triggers stress in our components we require a formula to be able to determine its value. The importance of knowing the amount of stress applied to an object is ultimately to prevent its untimely failurebecause every object has a lifespan. How we prevent early failure of components is primarily by checking the following Making sure that the stress induced does not exceed the material strength Preventing early fatigue failure The formula we use to calculate stress contains the following components
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There are a few considerations when using the formula above that must be noted The cross sectional area must be uniform throughout its entire length The cross section used is always the area perpendicular to the longitudinal axis on which the force acts Weight of the object loaded is typically ignored It is assumed that that the Force acts through the centroid of the cross sectional area It is also assumed that the Force is uniformly distributed over the cross sectional area Can be tensile or compressive
The unit of measure for stress is the Pascal, this however is typically too small for most engineering problems so the following multipliers are used
Tensile Stresses are considered to be pulling, such as the stress induced in a towing rope
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The sign convention for tensile stresses is positive and negative for compression. This is important when dealing with multiple stresses that need to be added or subtracted to find resultant stress.
Simple Strain
Strain simply refers to the elongation or shortening of an object that is under external forces. Its a Measure of Deformation. Tensile stresses cause an elongation and Compressive stresses cause a shortening of the member or object The formula for strain contains the following components
The formula
Strain is a ratio of the change in length over the original length, hence its dimensionless (no units). Its also typically very small, thus it gets measured in microstrain
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Longitudinal elongation
The equation for the strain itself remains the same for both.
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