In continuum mechanics, stress is a physical quantity that describes forces present during deformation. For example, an object being pulled apart, such...

and those of experimental solid mechanics to characterize the material's resistance to fracture. Theoretically, the stress ahead of a sharp crack tip becomes...

between the surfaces (shear stress). Normal contact mechanics or frictionless contact mechanics focuses on normal stresses caused by applied normal forces...

Fluid mechanics is the branch of physics concerned with the mechanics of fluids (liquids, gases, and plasmas) and the forces on them.: 3  It has applications...

applications of solid mechanics is the Euler–Bernoulli beam equation. Solid mechanics extensively uses tensors to describe stresses, strains, and the relationship...

condition Stress (mechanics), the internal forces that neighboring particles of a continuous material exert on each other Oxidative stress, an imbalance...

mechanics, the Cauchy stress tensor (symbol σ {\displaystyle {\boldsymbol {\sigma }}} , named after Augustin-Louis Cauchy), also called true stress tensor...

tensor, in continuum mechanics Viscous stress tensor, in continuum mechanics Stress–energy tensor, in relativistic theories Maxwell stress tensor, in electromagnetism...

properties. An additional area of continuum mechanics comprises elastomeric foams, which exhibit a curious hyperbolic stress-strain relationship. The elastomer...

strength of materials (also called mechanics of materials) typically refers to various methods of calculating the stresses and strains in structural members...