SHEARING

Shearing

Shearing in continuum mechanics refers to the occurrence of a shear strain, which is a deformation of a material substance in which parallel internal surfaces slide past one another. It is induced by a shear stress in the material. Shear strain is distinguished from volumetric strain, the change in a material's volume in response to stress.

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shearing

Noun

  1. The act or operation of clipping with shears or a shearing machine, as the wool from sheep, or the nap from cloth.
  2. The product of the act or operation of clipping with shears or a shearing machine.
    the whole shearing of a flock; the shearings from cloth
  3. The act or operation of reaping.
  4. The act or operation of dividing with shears.
    the shearing of metal plates
  5. The process of preparing shear steel; tilting.
  6. The process of making a vertical side cutting in working into a face of coal.

Verb

shearing

Adjective

  1. Tending to cut or tear.


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