Engineer's Notebook §1–2

Materials

How materials stretch, narrow and expand under load and heat. Each topic opens with its formula, then a demo you can change.

1 · Elasticity

1.1Hooke's lawσ = Eε
1.2Poisson's ratioν = −εlat/εax

2 · Thermal

2.1Thermal expansionΔL = αL ΔT