Engineering Rock Mechanics

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408 Questions 3.1-3.10: stress


to find a cube orientation such that the shear stresses disappear on all
faces and only normal stresses (the principal normal stresses) remain.
Is it possible to find a complementary orientation such that the normal
stresses disappear on all faces and only shear stresses (i.e. principal shear
stresses) remain? Explain the reason for your answer.

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