Applications Of Elastic Behaviour Of Materials

The elastic behaviour of materials plays an important role in everyday life. Al… Read more Applications Of Elastic Behaviour Of Materials

Elastic Potential Energy in a Stretched Wire

When a wire is put under a tensile stress, work is done against the inter-atomi… Read more Elastic Potential Energy in a Stretched Wire

Bulk Modulus and Poisson's Ratio

In Section ( STRESS AND STRAIN ), we have seen that when a body is submerged in… Read more Bulk Modulus and Poisson's Ratio

Shear Modulus

The ratio of shearing stress to the corresponding shearing strain is called the… Read more Shear Modulus

Determination of Young’s Modulus of the Material of a Wire

A typical experimental arrangement to determine the Young’s modulus of a materi… Read more Determination of Young’s Modulus of the Material of a Wire

Elastic Moduli

The proportional region within the elastic limit of the stress-strain curve (re… Read more Elastic Moduli