Recent content by Rob B

Right, which gets to the heart of my question: If I have the elastic limit, how do I know at which linear temperature gradient that limit is exceeded? I'm sorry if I'm missing the obvious - this is well outside of my core area of expertise ...

Thanks Baluncore. I agree that that's what will happen with a sheet that can change its shape - my formulation of the problem was just a simplification of a real problem, in which the sheet cannot change its shape, that is, it will remain planar (the sheet is in actuality just the surface of a...

I'm trying to use my rudimentary understanding of material physics to understand a simple problem, and am getting stuck - I hope you can help! My idealized case involves a sheet of infinite extent in length and width direction, to which a linear thermal gradient in the depth dimension is...