No, this would be false. It is called compression.
No, it's called compression.
The squeezing together of rocks by stress is called compression. This compressional stress can cause rocks to deform and change shape due to the forces acting upon them.
The squeezing together of rocks by stress is called compression. In scientific terms Compression is when a force called stress pushes rock/squeezes rock together until it folds or breaks.
Ah, that's a wonderful question, friend. The stress that pushes a mass of rock in two opposite directions is called "compressional stress." Just like when we paint, sometimes rocks feel the pressure from different directions, but they can still create something beautiful in the end.
Stress that pushes rock in diffrent directions is called tension. Not shearing
shearing stress to shearing strain
The stress that causes strike-slip faults is produced by a shearing force and so is called shear stress.
the 3 kinds of stress are compression,tension, and shearing
stress that pushes a mass of rock in two opposite directions is called shearing
The stress that causes strike-slip faults is produced by a shearing force and so is called shear stress.
A squeezing force is known as compression. It refers to the stress that tends to reduce the volume of a material by pushing its particles closer together.
you may find what you are looking for in a text called "the machinery handbook"