Stresses and Strains

Normal, torsional, bending, and transverse shear loadings were described in Section 2.3. This chapter describes the stresses and strains resulting from these types of loading while making use of the general Hooke’s law relation developed in Chapter 3. The theory developed in this chapter is applicable to any machine element. For the purposes of this

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Figure 4.1: Centroid of area. The centroid is at point C with coordinates (x¯, y¯).