Yi-Heng Chen's blog

What is stress? Who has ever seen stress? Is stress a physical quantity?(second section) Let us re-consider an example for metal foam as show n Figures 1(a,b) that show the local flexuosity under cycle compression loading. Previous researchers used the effective elastic moduli theory and the effective stress concept to study this kind of problem. However, who know what are the approximate stresses at any point in the form, say, at the points A, B, A’, B’?