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Definition of tangential stress
tangential stress Shear Shear, n. [AS. sceara. See Shear, v. t.]
1. A pair of shears; -- now always used in the plural, but
formerly also in the singular. See Shears.
On his head came razor none, nor shear. --Chaucer.
Short of the wool, and naked from the shear.
--Dryden.
2. A shearing; -- used in designating the age of sheep.
After the second shearing, he is a two-shear ram; .
. . at the expiration of another year, he is a
three-shear ram; the name always taking its date
from the time of shearing. --Youatt.
3. (Engin.) An action, resulting from applied forces, which
tends to cause two contiguous parts of a body to slide
relatively to each other in a direction parallel to their
plane of contact; -- also called shearing stress, and
tangential stress.
4. (Mech.) A strain, or change of shape, of an elastic body,
consisting of an extension in one direction, an equal
compression in a perpendicular direction, with an
unchanged magnitude in the third direction.
Shear blade, one of the blades of shears or a shearing
machine.
Shear hulk. See under Hulk.
Shear steel, a steel suitable for shears, scythes, and
other cutting instruments, prepared from fagots of
blistered steel by repeated heating, rolling, and tilting,
to increase its malleability and fineness of texture.
Tangential stress Tangential Tan*gen"tial, a. (Geom.)
Of or pertaining to a tangent; in the direction of a tangent.
Tangential force (Mech.), a force which acts on a moving
body in the direction of a tangent to the path of the
body, its effect being to increase or diminish the
velocity; -- distinguished from a normal force, which acts
at right angles to the tangent and changes the direction
of the motion without changing the velocity.
Tangential stress. (Engin.) See Shear, n., 3.
