Version 1.0, August 31, 2001, Copyright, Hugh Jack 1993-2001

18.2 GENERALIZED HOOKES LAW

 

· When we load a material in a single direction the effect of Poisson's ratio is naturally included in Young's Modulus. But, when there are multiple loads in multiple directions, we must uses Poisson's ratio to determine how they intersect.

 

 

· Consider the example below,