VDA - Material (Part 1)

An applied force producing or tending to produce tension in an elastic body

• Tensile force

• Axial force

• Compressive force

• Eccentric force

A tensile or compressive force acting along the longitudinal axis of a structural member and at the centroid of the cross section, producing axial stress without bending, torsion, or shear

• Shearing force

• Axial force

• Shear force

• Eccentric force

An applied force producing or tending to produce compression in an elastic body

• Tensile force

• Axial force

• Compressive force

• Eccentric force

A force applied parallel to the longitudinal axis of a structural member but not to the centroid of the cross section, producing bending and an uneven distribution of stresses in the section

• Tensile force

• Axial force

• Compressive force

• Eccentric force

The tensile or compressive stress that develops to resist an axial force, assumed to be normal to and uniformly distributed over the area of the cross section

• Axial stress

• Shearing stress

• Eccentric stress

The axial stress that develops at the cross section of an elastic body to resist the collinear tensile forces tending to elongate it

• Tensile stress

• Compressive stress

• Shearing stress

The axial stress that develops at the cross section of an elastic body to resist the collinear compressive forces tending to shorten it

• Tensile stress

• Compressive stress

• Shearing stress

The force per unit area developed along a section of an elastic body to resist a shear force

• Tensile stress

• Compressive stress

• Shearing stress

A set of tensile and compressive stresses resulting from the superposition of axial and bending stresses in the cross section of a structural member, acting in the same direction and equal at any point to their algebraic sum

• Combined stresses

• Shearing stress

• Shearing strain

• Shear modulus

The act of stretching or state of being pulled apart, resulting in the elongation of an elastic body

• Tension

• Compression

• Stress

• Strain