Section: Solid Mechanics | Marks: 1
At a point in a stressed body, sum of the normal stresses acting on perpendicular faces of an arbitrarily oriented plane stress element is always
- A. dependent on the angle of orientation of the element
- B. constant and independent of angle of orientation of the element
- C. one half of the sum of the principal stresses
- D. zero Case-I Case-II Case-III L L L P P P Hinged-Hinged Fixed-Free Fixed-Fixed
Answer: B. constant and independent of angle of orientation of the element