Let’s take a look back at tensile stress, from back in February. We said that the axial pulling of a isotropic bar creates axial or tensile stress. Some definitions:

Axial – lengthwise along the bar
Isotropic – often a metal, where the “crystal” structure in the material is uniform (wood and carbon fiber are not prismatic because [...]

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Pretty much everything in the world gives you some sort of stress or pressure. In physics, everyone probably knows that pressure is what you get when you divide a force by an area. We’re familiar with the units “psi”, or pounds per square inch. Note that pound in this case is “pound-force” and not “pound-mass”. [...]

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