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Shear strength

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Merchant's Law: Shear Stress and Cutting Force Relationship

Explains the shear stress and cutting force relationship based on Merchant's Law.

Explores material behavior in shear, shear forces, stress, equilibrium, shear laws, tension/compression, plane shear, shear rate, constrained slip, and shear strength.

Design and Verification of a Bearing Slab

Covers the design and verification process of a bearing slab for concrete bridges, including methods for calculating bending moments and shear force.

Introduction to Structural Mechanics

Covers beams with distributed and concentrated forces, bending moment, shear force, and internal load diagrams.

Structural Metal Design: Behavior and Resistance

Covers the idealized behavior of materials under elastic and plastic calculations.

Torsion of Non-Circular Bars

Introduces torsion, stresses, internal torques, shear stress profiles, and composite bars.

Understanding Viscosity: Newtonian Fluids

Explores viscosity in Newtonian fluids, discussing shear stress, shear strain rate, and compressibility, with examples of shear thickening and shear thinning behaviors.

Torsion: Part 2

Explores shear stress, relative deformations, shear modulus, and torsional shear stress in circular and thin-walled tubes.

In-plane behaviour: URM walls

Explores the seismic behavior and strength capacity of URM walls, including effective stiffness and drift capacity.

Geomechanics: Suction and Shear Strength

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URM Structures Failure Modes

Explores the failure modes of URM structures, covering in-plane and out-of-plane mechanisms, seismic aspects, and strength capacity.

Geomechanics: Basic Concepts

Introduces basic geomechanics concepts, stress paths, and the critical state concept.

Simple Shear: General Notions and Applications

Explores simple shear, shear stress, strain energy, stress analysis, and torsional shear stress in simple twist.

Modeling Shock Response of Brittle Materials

Explores shock response modeling of brittle materials, including spall strength evaluation and shear failure mechanisms.

Shear and Bearing Stresses

Explores shear and bearing stresses, including plasticity, creep, Hooke's Law, and allowable stresses in engineering design.

Snow Mechanics: Weak Layers and Failure Initiation

Explores the strength of weak snow layers, rate dependency, stability tests, and slab avalanche release processes.

Snow Mechanics: Avalanches

Explores snow mechanics, focusing on avalanches, weak layers, failure initiation, and stability tests.

Unsaturated Soils: Water Retention and Mechanical Behavior

Explores unsaturated soil behavior, emphasizing water retention and mechanical properties.

Snow Mechanics: Avalanche Release and Weak Layers

Explores snow mechanics, avalanche release, weak snow layers, deformation, and failure criteria.

Geomechanics: Basic Concepts

Introduces basic concepts of geomechanics, stress paths, effective stress, and shear strength analysis through laboratory testing.