- Look up
shear in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Shear may
refer to:
Animal shearing, the
collection of wool from
various species Sheep shearing The removal...
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Shear stress (often
denoted by τ (Gr****: tau)) is the
component of
stress coplanar with a
material cross section. It
arises from the
shear force, the component...
- In
materials science,
shear modulus or
modulus of rigidity,
denoted by G, or
sometimes S or μ, is a
measure of the
elastic shear stiffness of a material...
- In
structural engineering, a
shear wall is a two-dimensional
vertical element of a
system that is
designed to
resist in-plane
lateral forces, typically...
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which arise from
shearing the
fluid do not
depend on the
distance the
fluid has been
sheared; rather, they
depend on how
quickly the
shearing occurs. Viscosity...
- In
solid mechanics,
shearing forces are
unaligned forces acting on one part of a body in a
specific direction, and
another part of the body in the opposite...
- In engineering,
shear strength is the
strength of a
material or
component against the type of
yield or
structural failure when the
material or component...
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deformation by
shear or
tensile stresses) of non-Newtonian
fluids is
dependent on
shear rate or
shear rate history. Some non-Newtonian
fluids with
shear-independent...
- atmosphere.
Atmospheric wind
shear is
normally described as
either vertical or
horizontal wind
shear.
Vertical wind
shear is a
change in wind
speed or...
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mapping is also
called shear transformation, transvection, or just
shearing. The
transformations can be
applied with a
shear matrix or transvection,...