The unit of Young's modulus is same as that of stress.

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• Every direct stress is always accompanied by a strain in its own direction and an opposite kind of strain in every direction, at right angles to it. Such a strain is known as
• The bending moment of a cantilever beam of length l and carrying a uniformly distributed load of w per unit length is __________ at the fixed end.
• A continuous beam is one which is
• In a beam of uniform strength, the bending stress developed is constant and is equal to the allowable stress at every section of the beam.
• The value of equivalent length is taken to be half of the actual length of a column with one end fixed and the other end free.
• According to Euler's column theory, the crippling load for a column of length (l) with one end fixed and the other end hinged, is
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• The proof resilience per unit volume of a material is known as modulus of resilience.

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