Category: Shear Modulus Formula

On the application of a shear force of 8 kN on a cube of edge 4 cm and made of material of shear modulus 2 ×109 Pa, the upper face of a cube gets displaced by: (a) 0.1 mm (b) 0.1 cm (c) 0.4 mm (d) 0.2 cm Ans (a) Is this page helpful?

A material’s response to an applied force changes with temperature and pressure. In metals, the shear modulus decreases with increasing temperature. So, the rigidity decreases as pressure increases.  Mechanical Threshold Stress (MTS) plastic flow stress model, the Nadal and LePoac (NP) shear modulus model, and the Steinberg-Cochran-Guinan (SCG) shear modulus model are the three models…

Shear modulus tells how effectively a body will resist the forces applied to change its shape. When a shear force is applied on a body which results in its lateral deformation, the elastic coefficient is called the shear modulus of elasticity. It measures the rigidity of a body. Conceptually, it is the ratio of shear…