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Shape of a beam that is bowed under compression?
Suppose you have a uniform beam, such as a piece of plywood that is 4 feet long, six inches wide, and half an inch thick. Suppose you cause it to bend by attaching, for example, a string under ...
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Should we use Hooke's Law (that linearly relates stresses to strains) if the stiffness of body is changing during deformation?
Assume I have a slender cantilever beam, fixed at one end and force applied on the other. Now, during the deformation, we know that the beam's stiffness is going to change and the force-displacement ...
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