Appendix -- A: 3-D stress
cube model
This cut-out can be copied and made into a cube. It is provided as
an aide-memoire for the 3-D stress state, and especially to indicate the
sign of the shear stresses using the right-hand rule (see Footnote 6 in
Chapter 4). For ease of use, we recommend that an enlarged photocopy
of this is made.
THE STRESS CUBE
Cut out, fold and glue to form a model of
the The stresses sign conventions acting on an infinitesimal this model uses are cubeCOMPRESSION POSITIVE and RIGHT HANDED AXES
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