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Shearing Stress

Shearing Stress

Shearing stress, denoted by the Greek letter tau (τ), is stress caused by forces acting transversely on an object. These forces create internal ones within the entity in the plane where the external forces are applied. The resultant of these internal forces is the shear in the section.
The average shearing stress can be calculated by dividing the shear by the area of the cross-section.

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Jay M J R Carr¹, Philip N Ainslie¹

¹Centre for Heart, Lung and Vascular Health, University of British Columbia-Okanagan Campus, School of Health and Exercise Sciences, Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada.

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cerebrovascular intermittent hypoxia shear stress vasoreactivity

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