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Torsion

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Objectives: In this chapter we investigate shafts that are twisted by external torques. As in the previous chapters, we calculate the deformations and stresses that are caused by the loading. For simplicity, we restrict ourselves to shafts with circular cross sections and to thin-walled shafts.

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  1. Solid Mechanics, TU Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany

    Dietmar Gross

  2. Continuum Mechanics, TU Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany

    Werner Hauger

  3. Institute of Mechanics, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

    Jörg Schröder

  4. Computational Mechanics, TU München, Garching, Germany

    Wolfgang A. Wall

  5. University of Greenwich, London, UK

    Javier Bonet

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Gross, D., Hauger, W., Schröder, J., Wall, W.A., Bonet, J. (2018). Torsion. In: Engineering Mechanics 2. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-56272-7_5

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