Wednesday, 28 June 2017

Poisson's Ratio

When a material is subjected to some force, its dimension changes in the direction of force applied. Due to the resulting effect of the longitudinal strain, a lateral strain (strain in the perpendicular direction of force applied) is also produced in the material.
This happens because of the constant mass of material i.e material quantity. Lateral dimension changes to sustain the constant amount of material.
The ratio of Lateral strain to Longitudinal strain is always constant for a particular material which is called 'Poisson's Ratio.'  It is denoted by '𝒱'.

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