Introduction to the Basics of Stress

Abstract

For the design and development of new machine components, the researchers and engineers must have an extreme understanding of the stress, strain, and the basic equations/laws relating the stress to the strain. In this chapter, the authors show the basic concepts of stress developed in a component concerning the external loading and the loading concerning the body force. In this chapter, the following aspects were proposed to be briefly discussed: type of stresses, introduction to stress at particular node, stress equation relates the equilibrium of body, laws related to transformation of stress, states of stress, and sample solved problems related to the simple state of the stress system.