General Hooke's Law
General Hooke's Law
General Hooke's Law
Uniaxial Loading
The ratio of the transverse strain to the axial strain is constant for stresses
within the proportional limit. This constant is called Poisson’s Ratio and is
denoted as (Nu), thus:
t
x
The Poisson’s ratio is a dimensionless quantity and varies from 0.25 to
0.33 for metals.
x
E
x
x
x
E
from:
t
x
t x
thus,
x
t
E
Multiaxial Loading - Poisson’s ratio permits us to extend Hooke’s law for
uniaxial loading to biaxial and triaxial loadings.
1 1
x
E
x y , y
E
y x , z
E
x y
Shear Loading - Shear stress causes the deformation shown in figure below.
The lengths of the sides of the element do not change, but the element
undergoes a distortion from a rectangle to a parallelogram.
The shear strain, which measures the amount of distortion, is the angle
(gamma), always expressed in radians.
It has been found from the experiment that within the elastic limit, the
shear strain is directly proportional to the shear stress, thus:
G
E
G
2 1
Sample Problems
1. A solid cylinder of diameter d carries an axial load P. Show that the change
4P
in diameter is
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