What will you learn in this chapter?

 Why stress & strain? Why not work with loads and elongations (which are more
easy to comprehend)?s
 How do forces lead to stresses and strains?
Can stress exist without strain and can strain exist without stress?
 How to ‘physically’ understand stress?
 Understanding stress and strain tensors in terms of their components.
 Hydrostatic and deviatoric components of stress and strain.
 Planes of maximum shear stress (role in plasticity).
 Understanding surface stress.
 Residual stress. Microstructural origins of residual stress.

Please revise common types of loading and deformation induced by them first (click here)