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This document contains a tutorial on analyzing stress and strain with 10 practice problems: 1. Determine the stress tensor and plane of zero stress for a given stress matrix. 2. Find principal stresses, axes, and shears for 3 stress matrices. 3. Calculate principal stresses and directions from rectangular stress components. 4. Find principal stresses and check for invariance for another stress matrix. 5. Determine shear and normal stresses on a plane from given principal stresses. 6. Calculate the strain tensor from a displacement field at a point. 7. Obtain principal strain magnitudes from a displacement field. 8. Write the strain matrix and find strain in a direction for a displacement

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This document contains a tutorial on analyzing stress and strain with 10 practice problems: 1. Determine the stress tensor and plane of zero stress for a given stress matrix. 2. Find principal stresses, axes, and shears for 3 stress matrices. 3. Calculate principal stresses and directions from rectangular stress components. 4. Find principal stresses and check for invariance for another stress matrix. 5. Determine shear and normal stresses on a plane from given principal stresses. 6. Calculate the strain tensor from a displacement field at a point. 7. Obtain principal strain magnitudes from a displacement field. 8. Write the strain matrix and find strain in a direction for a displacement

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DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

College of Engineering Thalassery

MET201 Mechanics of Solids

Tutorial-1: Analysis of Stress and strain

1. The state of stress at a point is characterised by the matrix shown. Determine T11 such that there is at
least one plane passing through the point in such a way that the resultant stress on that plane is zero.
Determine the direction cosines of the normal to that plane.
 
T11 2 1
τij =  2 0 2
1 2 0

2. Determine the principal stresses, their axes, principal shears and the associated normal stresses for the
states of stress characterised by the following stress matrices (units are 1000 kPa).
(a)  
18 0 24
τij =  0 −50 0
24 0 32

(b)  
3 −10 0
τij = −10 0 30 
0 30 −27

(c)  
12.31 4.20 0
τij =  4.20 8.96 5.27
0 5.27 4.34
3. At a point P, the rectangular stress components are, σx = 1, σy = −2, σz = 4, τxy = 2, τyz = −3 and
τzx = 1 all in units of KPa. Find the principal stresses and directions.
4. Find the principal stresses and check for invariance in the following case.
 
1 2 1
τij = 2 −2 −3
1 −3 4

5. The stress at a point is given by the three principal stresses 100, 120 and 200N/mm2 . Determine the
shear and normal stresses on a plane which has normal with direction cosines as √12 , √12 and 0.

6. The general displacement eld in a body, in Cartesian co-ordinates, is given by u = 0.015x2 y + 0.03, v =
0.005y 2 + 0.03xz, w = 0.003z 2 + 0.001yz + 0.005. Find the strain tensor, ij for point (1,0,2)
7. The displacement eld in a body is given by [(x2 + y 2 + 2)i + (3x + 4y 2 )j + (2x3 + 4z)k] × 10−4 . Obtain
the magnitude of principal strains at location (1,2,3).
8. If the displacement eld is given by ux = Kxy + y, uy = Kxy, uz = 2K(x + y), where K is a constant.
(a) Write down the strain matrix.
√
(b) What is the strain in direction nx = ny = nz = 1/ 3
9. The displacement eld for a body is given by u = [(x2 + y 2 + 2)i + (3x + 4y 2 )j + (2x3 + 4z)k]What is
the displaced position of a point originally at (1, 2, 3)? question The rectangular components of a small
strain at a point is given by the following matrix. Determine the principal strains and the direction of
the maximum linear strain  
1 0 0
[ij ] = 0 0 −ρ/5
0 −ρ/5 3
Where ρ is your roll number.
10. The tensorial strain at the origin is given by
 
1 1 1
[ij ] = 1 0 3 × 10−2
1 3 1

Determine normal strain along the direction from (0,0,0) to (3,4,12)

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