Type of efforts/stresses

Type of efforts/stresses

1. Compression

   • the act of pressing something into a smaller space or putting pressure on it from different sides until it gets smaller
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2. Buckling

   • To bend something or become bent, often as a result of force, heat, or weakness

3. Bending

   • Shape or force (something straight) into a curve or angle.

4. Torsion

   • The action of twisting or the state of being twisted, especially of one end of an object relative to the other.

5. Tension

   • Tension is defined as the force transmitted through a rope, string or wire when pulled by forces acting from opposite sides.

6. Shear

   • a internal effort produced by pressure in the structure of a substance, when its layers are laterally shifted in relation to each other.

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