Wednesday, September 3, 2008

Aircraft Stress

from JROTC.ORG

STRESS

Five types of stress act on the aircraft in flight:

Tension tends to pull things apart.
Compression
tends to push materials together
Bending
is a combination of tension and compression.
Shear
is caused by forces tending to slip or slide one part of a material in respect to another part.
Torsion
tends to distort by twisting.

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