Chapter 4
Axial Loading
4.1 Introduction
Having understood the meaning of stress and strain at a point of body is not sufficient to find out the forces acting on a member of a structure. The structures are always designed and made out of materials that deform under load and their deformation changes the magnitudes of forces that are required to satisfy the conditions of static equilibrium. It is further emphasised that the members of any structure are joined together in various ways. Forces are transmitted through such joints and they are determined in conjunction with the forces carried by the members and their deformation. There are several ways in which a member can be loaded with respect to its geometry. What follows now is step by step ...
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