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 August 2nd, 2017, 01:04 PM #1 Newbie   Joined: Aug 2017 From: birmingham Posts: 4 Thanks: 0 shear stress Hi Am stuck on a question which i thought i figured the answer for but came back wrong. The relationship between Shear Stress (Ïƒ) and direct stress (Ïƒx and Ïƒy) was found to be of the form; Ïƒ= (Ïƒx - Ïƒy)sin e (20) ...........2 the dots so i could move the two directly under the fraction....thats all Find the value of the direct stress (Ïƒy) when the value of the shear stress (Ïƒ) is 25 MNm-2, the value of (Ïƒx) is 80 MNm-2 and the value of the angle of the plane (Î¸) to the horizontal is 25Â°.
 August 2nd, 2017, 05:23 PM #2 Math Team   Joined: Jan 2015 From: Alabama Posts: 2,878 Thanks: 766 So you mean $\displaystyle \sigma= \frac{(\sigma_x- \sigma_y)sin e(20)}{2}$? But what does that "sin e(20)" mean? Did you mean $\displaystyle sin(\theta)$? To solve $\displaystyle \sigma= \frac{(\sigma_x- \sigma_y)sin(\theta)}{2}$ for $\displaystyle \sigma_y$ in terms of the other variable, start by multiplying both sides by 2 and dividing by $\displaystyle sin(\theta)$ to get $\displaystyle \frac{2\sigma}{sin(\theta)}= \sigma_x- \sigma_y$. Add $\displaystyle \sigma_y$ from both sides and subtract $\displaystyle \frac{2\sigma}{\sin(\theta)}$ to finally get $\displaystyle \sigma_y= \sigma_x- \frac{2\sigma}{sin(\theta)}$
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thnx country boy much appreciated, this is how i worked it out but am not sure about the whole thing..
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 Originally Posted by spiritz thnx country boy much appreciated, this is how i worked it out but am not sure about the whole thing..
As Country Boy has already pointed out, what's this "$sin e 2\theta$"? Do you mean $\sin(2\theta e)$? Or $\sin(2 \theta)$? I have never seen the use of $e$ in mechanics questions such as this..

Yes, in plain English, the spelling for the sine function is, Sine. But very rarely (never?) does one write $sine(\theta)$.

Anyway.. If it really is $\sin(2\theta e)$, then your algebra and calculations seem fine to me.

 August 7th, 2017, 09:28 AM #5 Newbie   Joined: Aug 2017 From: birmingham Posts: 4 Thanks: 0 Thnx joppy, I honestly don't know what it's meant by sine but I'll take my chances with the answer iv giving

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