… for bending

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… for bending#

The constitutive relation for extension is based on the force on a infinitesimal small part of the cross-section and Hooke’s law, leading to:

\[M = EI \kappa\]

This is treated in chapter 4.3.2 of the book Engineering Mechanics Volume 2 (Hartsuijker and Welleman, 2007).

Instructions from lecture#

This topic is presented in a lecture available from 1:38:00 here for TU Delft students.

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