Strength of Materials
187
stress is called the
ultimate tensile strength,
UTS,
of
the material. Standard engineering
practice is to define the yield point
as
0.2% permanent strain.
When
a
bar is elongated axially, as in Figure 2-25, it will contract laterally. The
negative ratio of the lateral strain to the axial strain is called
Poisson's ratio
v.
For
isotropic
materials, materials that have the same elastic properties in all directions,
Poisson's ratio has
a
value
of
about
0.3.
Now consider a block to which
a
uniformly distributed load of magnitude
P
is
applied parallel to opposed faces with area
A
(Figure 2-27). These loads produce
a
shear stress
within the material
T.
T
=
P/A
(2-74)
Note that in order for the block
of
Figure 2-27 to be in static equilibrium, there
must also be a load
P
applied parallel to each of the faces
B.
Thus any given shear
stress always implies
a
second shear stress of equal magnitude acting perpendicularly
to the first
so
as to produce a state of static equilibrium. The shear stress will produce
a deformation
of
the block, manifested as
a
change in the angle between the face
perpendicular to the load and the face over which the load
is
applied. This change in
angle
is
called the
shear strain
y.
y=
Aa
(2-75)
For an elastic material the shear stress is related
to
the shear strain through a
constant of proportionality
G,
called the
shear
modulus.
The shear strain
is
dimensionless, and the shear modulus has units
of
force per unit area.
T
=
c;y
(2-76)
The shear modulus
is
related to Young's modulus and Poisson's ratio by
E
G=-
2(
1
+
v)
(2-77)
In practice, loads are not necessarily uniformly distributed nor uniaxial, and cross-
sec~ional areas are often variable. Thus it becomes necessary
to
define the stress at a
point
ab
the limiting value of the load per unit area
as
the area approaches zero.
Furthermore, there may be tensile or compressive stresses
(ox,
oY,
0,)
in each
of
three
orthogonal directions and
as
many
as
six shear stresses
(T~", T~~,
T~,,
T,~,
zyL,
TJ.
The
P
Figure
2-27.
Shear
loading
of
a
block.