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- Verb[edit] shear ‎(third-person singular simple present shears, present participle shearing, simple past sheared or shore, past participle shorn or sheared) To cut, originally with a sword or other bladed weapon, now usually with shears, or as if using shears.
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Stress and Strain: Basic Terms and Concepts Strain is defined as the amount of deformation an object experiences compared to its original size and shape. For example, if a block 10 cm on a side is deformed so that it becomes 9 cm long, the strain is (10-9)/10 or 0.1 (sometimes expressed in percent, in this case 10 percent.) Note that strain is dimensionless.
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- Viscosity is the measure of a substance's resistance to motion under an applied force. The result is typically expressed in centipoise (cP), which is the equivalent of 1 mPa s (millipascal second). Shear stress is the force per unit area required to move one layer of fluid in relation to another.
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Shear strength (December 2007). In engineering, shear strength is the strength of a material or component against the type of yield or structural failure where the material or component fails in shear.
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- That means, the price to you of a long-term disability policy from Insurance Company X is the same regardless of whether you buy it directly from Insurance Company X or through an independent broker (like PolicyGenius).
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- 1 Wind shear-a turning of the winds with height in the air; 2  A strong vertical wind called an “updraft”, usually associated with an intense thunderstorm; 3  A zone of colliding air masses near the surface.
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Shear wall A structure of shear walls in the center of a large building — often encasing an elevator shaft or stairwell — form a shear core. A typical timber shearwall is to create braced panels in the wall line using structural plywood sheathing with specific nailing at the edges and supporting framing of the panel.
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- 1 The figure shows a typical shear wall. 2  Shear walls are typically wood frame stud walls covered with a structural sheathing material like plywood.  When the sheathing is properly fastened to the stud wall framing, the shear wall can resist forces directed along the length of the wall. When designed and constructed properly, shear walls will have the strength and stiffness to resist the horizontal forces.
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Shear stress A shearing force is applied to the top of the rectangle while the bottom is held in place. The resulting shear stress, τ, deforms the rectangle into a parallelogram. The area involved would be the top of the parallelogram.
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Shear Factor Shear Factor. The distance a point moves due to shear divided by the perpendicular distance of a point from the invariant line.
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shearverb shear verb (CUT) › [ T ] to cut the wool off a sheep: The farmer taught her how to shear sheep. › [ T ] to cut the hair on a person's head close to the skin, especially without care: He recalled the humiliation of having his hair shorn and exchanging his clothes for the prison uniform. be shorn of sth.
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Definition of 'shear' shear (ʃɪəʳ ) Word forms: plural , 3rd person singular present tense shears , present participle shearing , past tense , past participle sheared , past tense , past participle shorn. 1. verb. To shear a sheep means to cut its wool off.
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- J Brian. Whilst the question asks how to calculate the shear force I presume that the question is intended to be: - how to calculate the shear stress . Shear stress is the force, F, acting on a given section divided by the cross sectional area, A, of the section, calculated in the direction of the force. E.G., for a force, F, normal to the surface of a beam having a cross sectional area of A, the shear stress is = F/A. The first answer, given by Niel Leon, deals with the bending moment 7 years ago
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"What Does ""Shear Off a Wall"" Mean?" In the world of construction, shear can refer to several things. To engineers it’s a certain type of stress inside a structural member due to some applied load. Shear can also mean a lateral load from earthquake or wind. And shear can refer to a construction method of resisting wind and earthquake loads.To shear off a wall is in reference to this third definition. Shear is one of several stresses, with bending, tension, and compression being the other main ones.To understand what shear really is, let’s look at how things fail. 1  If a member fails in tension, it is pulled apart.n the world of construction, shear can refer to several things. To engineers it’s a certain type of stress inside a structural member due to some applied load. Shear can also mean a lateral load from earthquake or wind. And shear can refer to a construction method of resisting wind and earthquake loads.
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- The definition of a strain is a bodily injury due to overexertion or an excessive demand on resources. 1  An example of strain is a pulled muscle. 2  An example of strain is reading a book in the dark, causing pressure on the eyes.
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- This shear strain or slide is and can be defined as the change in right angle. or The angle of deformation  is then. termed as the shear strain. Shear strain is measured in radians & hence is non – dimensional i.e. it has no unit.So we. have two types of strain i.e. normal stress & shear stresses.
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Shearing (physics) Shearing (physics) Shearing in continuum mechanics refers to the occurrence of a shear strain, which is a deformation of a material substance in which parallel internal surfaces slide past one another. It is induced by a shear stress in the material.
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Difference Between Friction and Shear • Friction is measured in Newton, while the shear stress is measured in Pascal. • Friction is a force, while the shear stress is a force per unit area. • Friction depends on both of the contact surfaces, while shear stress depends only on the force parallel to the surface per unit area.
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Shear flow In solid mechanics, the shear flow q in a closed, thin-wall tube is defined as the internal shearing force V per unit of length of the perimeter around a thin section. Shear flow has the dimensions of force per unit of length.
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Sheep shearing The shearer is using a sling for back support. Sheep shearing is the process by which the woollen fleece of a sheep is cut off. The person who removes the sheep's wool is called a shearer. Typically each adult sheep is shorn once each year (a sheep may be said to have been shorn or sheared, depending upon dialect).
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Definitions &Translations Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: 1  shear(noun) (physics) a deformation of an object in which parallel planes remain parallel but are shifted in a direction parallel to themselves. 2  shear(verb) a large edge tool that cuts sheet metal by passing a blade through it. 3  shear(verb) cut with shears.
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shearling Definition of shearling. : skin from a recently sheared sheep or lamb that has been tanned and dressed with the wool left on.
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Definition of 'whip' 1. countable noun. 1  A whip is a long thin piece of material such as leather or rope, fastened to a stiff handle. 2  If someone whips a person or animal, they beat them or hit them with a whip or something like a whip. 3  If something, for example the wind, whips something, it strikes it sharply.
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- Shear and Moment Functions. Beams are structural members which carry lateral. loading (perpendicular to the bending axis). To design a beam, a detailed knowledge of the. variation of the axial force, A, shear force, V, and. the bending moment, M, through out the member. is required. Shear and Moment Functions. Typically, axial force is not considered since: 1. in most cases the loading is perpendicular to. the beam; and. 2. the beam’s resistance to shear and bending. moment is more critical. The variation of the shear and moment along the. beam may be written as a function of the position,
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Shear Force and Bending Moment Introduction. 1  Shear Forces occurs when two parallel forces act out of alignment with each other. For example, in a large boiler made from sections of sheet metal plate riveted together, there is an equal and opposite force exerted on the rivets, owing to the expansion and contraction of the plates.
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Shear force From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Shearing forces push in one direction at the top, and the opposite direction at the bottom, causing shearing deformation. A crack or tear may develop in a body from parallel shearing forces pushing in opposite directions at different points of the body. If the forces were aligned and aimed straight into each other, they would pinch or compress the body, rather than tear or crack it.