Consider the following four examples of states of plane stress. Can you construct the Mohr’s circle for these examples? Can you determine the principal components of stress? Can you determine the ...

Anticipatory anxiety is not the same as flight anxiety. In anticipatory anxiety, you imagine the future. You experience an imaginary airplane, not a real one. Stress depends upon imagination. In ...

In this video I take a look at plane stress, an assumption used in solid mechanics to simplify the analysis of a component by turning a 3D problem into a 2D one. For a plane stress condition to be ...