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Shear strain
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Shear strain is a strain that acts parallel to the face of a material that it is acting on. Normal strain acts perpendicular to the face of that it is acting on. There are two ways into interpret shear strain: the average shear strain and the engineering shear strain. The variable used to denote average shear stain is ε while γ denotes engineering shear strain.
Consider a infintesimal rectangle in the xy plane subject to shear strain. The rectangle becomes are parallelogram where α is the displacement from the y axis in the x direction and δ is the displacement from the x axis in the y direction. The average shear strain is
- εxy = 0.5(α+δ) = εyx
Definition of engineering shear strain:
- γ = εxy+εyx = 2εxy
- γ = α+δ = θ-β
θ is the angle before deformation and β is the angle at that same point after deformation. Therefore γ describes the total deformation. Although, strain is dimensionless, it is usually stated as in./in. or some similar sign convention.
- Shear modulus
- Moiré pattern (the Moiré effect can be used to measure strain)
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