Cairo University - Faculty of Engineering MDE - Fall 2021

Mechanics of Solids (MDPN 262) Sheet 2 - Strain

1) The displacement components in a strained body are:

u = 0.01 x + 0.002 y2 mm, v = 0.02 x2 + 0.02 z3 mm, w = 0.001 x +0.005 mm.
a) What is the change in distance between two points which have coordinates (3,2,0) and
(-1,14,5) before deformation?
b) Determine the state of strain at point (3,1,2).

2) The state of strain in a body is given by:

0.005 0.0025 0
[ε] = [0.0025 0.005 0 ]
0 0 0.005
a) Calculate the principal strains.
b) Calculate the dilatation and deviatoric strains.

3) The parallelepiped in the following figure is deformed into

the shape indicated by the dashed straight lines (small
displacements). The displacements are given by the
following relations:
u = C1 x y z, v = C2 x y z, w = C3 x y z
a) Determine the state of strain at point E when the
coordinates of point E' in the deformed body are
(1.503,1.001,1.997).
b) Determine the normal strain at E in the direction AE.

4) At a point in a stressed body, the strains related to the coordinate set xyz are given by:
2 3 2
[ε] = [3 −1 5 ] ×10-6
2 5 −4
a) Calculate the normal strain in x' direction, which is directed at an angle θ = 30o from the
x-axis. The z'-axis is concided with z-axis.
b) Calculate the principal strains.
c) Calculate the maximum shear strain.
d) Calculate the dilatation.

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5) A three-dimensional state of strain is given by:

𝜀𝑥 = 4 × 10−4 𝜀𝑦 = 6 × 10−4 𝜀𝑧 = 2 × 10−4

𝛾𝑥𝑦 = 3 × 10−4 𝛾𝑦𝑧 = 3 × 10−4 𝛾𝑧𝑥 = −5 × 10−4
- It is required to:
a) write down the strain tensor.
b) calculate the principal strains.
c) calculate the volumetric strain.