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Biaxial stress is a stress state where a 2D stress element is subjected to normal stresses in both directions without any shear stresses. This stress state is shown in the figure below. Biaxial stresses occur in many applications including thin-walled pressure vessels.
This page is part of The Encyclopedia of Stresses in Solids
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