Models based on Andrea Liu and Sidney Nagel’s article “Jamming is not just cool any more” use a phase space of temperature, inverse density, and this quantity to analyze the jamming phase transition in granular materials. The critical value of this quantity resolved to a particular plane in a crystal is given by Schmid’s law. For beams with a rectangular or circular cross section, this quantity reaches its maximum value at the neutral axis. The Tresca criterion is based on when the largest component of this quantity reaches a specified critical value. This quantity equals “torsion over the polar moment of inertia,” all times “the radial distance to the surface in question” for a shaft subjected to torque. Components of this quantity are the off-diagonal elements of the Cauchy (“KOH-shee”) tensor. For 10 points, tau denotes what quantity that is the force per area of a force parallel to the surface of a solid? ■END■
ANSWER: shear stress [accept shear force or shear load until “force” is read; prompt on stress; prompt on load or force until “force” is read]
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