A 2.0-m-long steel rod has a cross-sectional area of
The rod is a part of a vertical support that holds a heavy 550-kg platform that hangs attached to the rod’s lower end. Ignoring the weight of the rod, what is the tensile stress in the rod and the elongation of the rod under the stress?
Strategy
First we compute the tensile stress in the rod under the weight of the platform in accordance with
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From
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Solution
Substituting numerical values into the equations gives us
Significance
Similarly as in the example with the column, the tensile stress in this example is not uniform along the length of the rod. Unlike in the previous example, however, if the weight of the rod is taken into consideration, the stress in the rod is largest at the top and smallest at the bottom of the rod where the equipment is attached.
Objects can often experience both compressive stress and tensile stress simultaneously
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A heavy box rests on a table supported by three columns. 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.
Bulk stress, strain, and modulus
When you dive into water, you feel a force pressing on every part of your body from all directions. What you are experiencing then is bulk stress, or in other words,
pressure . Bulk stress always tends to decrease the volume enclosed by the surface of a submerged object. The forces of this “squeezing” are always perpendicular to the submerged surface
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compared with the volume
of the object in the absence of bulk stress. This kind of deformation is called bulk strain and is described by a change in volume relative to the original volume:
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