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I assume you are asking about shear stress... It is the force applied coplanar to the material cross section. Just imagine a match box with its one face sticked to ground. If you put your thumb on top of the match box and push it to a side then the box suffers a stress which is called shear stress.

According to my perception if you subject a material with such a kind of force the material 'may' undergo tearing internally...

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