Determination of Principal Stresses

• The shear stresses acting on the faces of a cube referred to its principal axes are zero.

  • This means that the total stress is equal to the normal stress.

• The total stress is:

• The normal stress is:

• If pi and ?N coincide then

(4-18)

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