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Buckling in Compression and Elongation in Tension

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Key Points

  • The compression is done reversibly (very slowly), but non-adiabatically: the air receives heat through the walls throughout the process.
  • View this demonstration to move the box to see how the compression (or tension) in the columns is affected when the box changes its position.
  • The engineering principle of elastic deformation, which can be used to understand earthquakes, is illustrated in Figure 11.1.1.
  • Stress is a quantity that describes the magnitude of forces that cause deformation.
  • Strain is given as a fractional change in either length (under tensile stress) or volume (under bulk stress) or geometry (under shear stress).

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