List of things to memorize:
SaM - Stress and Strain • Strain and Stress
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- SaM - Definition of Stress and Strain • Definition of Strain and Stress • Stress Vector • Strain Vector
- SaM - Young and Poisson Modulus
- SaM - Hooke’s Law • Collapsed Yieldness Tensor for Isotropic Materials
- SaM - Definition of Isotropic and Anisotropic Materials
- SaM - Collapsed Stiffness Tensor for Isotropic Materials
SaM - Definition of Stress and Strain • Definition of Strain and Stress • Stress Vector • Strain Vector
- “Stress” ⇒ “Stress”
- “Strain” ⇒ “Deformazione”
- Stress:
- Strain:
- Terminology:
- , , : stress.
- , , : strain.
- : force.
- : area.
- : ==an infinitesimal small surface area of the solid, perpendicular to the “normal vector” ==.
- : displacement.
- : strain direction vector, so in which direction the strain is applied.
While : -th axis.
SaM - Young and Poisson Modulus
- Young Modulus:
- Poisson Modulus:
- Terminology:
- : force.
- : area.
- : radius.
- : lenght.
- : stress
- : strain.
- : parallel strain.
- : perpendicular strain.
SaM - Hooke’s Law • Collapsed Yieldness Tensor for Isotropic Materials
Or:
- Hooke’s Law for Isotropic Materials:Or:
- Terminlogy:
- : stress.
- : strain.
- is the elastic constant (depends on the material), and comes from the Stifness Tensor (In Italian “Tensore di Rigidezza”)
- is the yieldness constant (depends on the material), and comes from the Yieldness Tensor (In Italian “Tensore di Cedevolezza”)
- refers specifically for the collapsed stiffness tensor:
If we expand the terms:
- (lame modulus)
- (shear modulus)
- While to the collapsed yieldness tensor:

SaM - Definition of Isotropic and Anisotropic Materials
- Isotropic materials exhibit the same mechanical properties in all directions.
- Anisotropic materials, on the other hand, have different mechanical properties in different directions.
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SaM - Collapsed Stiffness Tensor for Isotropic Materials
Collapsed stiffness tensor:
- Or we can write:
- (lame modulus)
- (shear modulus)
While the collapsed yieldness tensor: