18 Formulas for Stress and Strain [CHAP.

Figure 2.8 The stress at a point using different coordinate systems.

It can be shown that the transformation matrix

2 3
lx0 mx0 nx 0
½T ¼ 4 ly0 my0 ny 0 5 ð2:3-6Þ
lz0 mz0 nz0