shear stress
component of stress coplanar with a material cross section
Facts
11 properties- Subclass of
- mechanical stress, physical quantity, scalar quantity[1][2][3]
- Defining formula
- \tau_{\mathrm{s}} = \frac{\mathrm{d} F_{\mathrm{t}}}{\mathrm{d} A}
- Described by source
- ISO 80000-4:2006 Quantities and units—Part 4: Mechanics, ISO 80000-4:2019 Quantities and units — Part 4: Mechanics[4][5]
- Different from
- shear force, shear modulus, tensile stress, compression[7][8][9][10]
- ISQ dimension
- \mathsf{L}^{-1} \mathsf{M} \mathsf{T}^{-2}
- In defining formula
- \tau_{\mathrm{s}}, F_{\mathrm{t}}, A
- Maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics[12]
- Quantity symbol (LaTeX)
- \tau_{\mathrm{s}}, \tau
- Recommended unit of measurement
- pascal, newton per square metre, kilogram per metre square second[13][14][15]
- Studied by
- elasticity theory[11]
🏷️ Also known as
en shear stress
en τ
en tau
ar إجهاد القص
cs smykové napětí
de Gleitung
de Schubspannung
de Scherung
de Scherspannung
de Scherkraft
el Διατμητική τάση
es tensión de corte
es tensión cortante
fa تنش برشی
fi Leikkausjännitys
fr cisaillement
fr contrainte de cisaillement
fr contrainte tangentielle
he כוח גזירה
he כח גזירה
🔖 Identifiers · 23
- Library of Congress Authorities ID
- sh85121189
- GND ID
- 4191822-8
- OpenAlex ID
- C21141959
- Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID
- 300072894
- Australian Educational Vocabulary ID
- scot/15062
- Elhuyar ZTH ID
- 137138
- Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) ID (2026)
- avsxF
- Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) old ID (2021)
- 188936
- Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
- science/shear-stress
- Freebase ID
- /m/028h2f
- Google Knowledge Graph ID
- /g/121hg7dt
- Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID
- skjærspenning
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- IEV number
- 113-03-64
- IUPAC Gold Book ID
- S05638
- J9U entity ID
- 987007536442505171
- JSTOR topic ID (archived)
- shear-stress
- Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued)
- 21141959
- QUDT dimension ID
- A0E0L-1I0M1H0T-2D0
- QUDT quantity kind ID
- ShearStress
- Quora topic ID
- Shear-Stress
- Wolfram Language quantity ID
- ShearStress
- Wurvoc.org measure ID
- Shear_stress
- Yale LUX ID
- concept/74c64723-e7eb-485b-92a8-183c45da9442
🔗 Connections
Belongs to 3
Subclass of 3
Different from 2
Has effect 1
Maintained by WikiProject 1
Recommended unit of measurement 1
Studied by 1
← Different from 1
← Has cause 1
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