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Tension
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Concept
Tension in strings and cables
Tension is the pulling force transmitted along a flexible connector such as a string or cable, uniform along an ideal massless, frictionless length and solved for by applying Newton's second law to each body it connects.
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ConceptTension, compression, bending, torsion, and shear
Every internal force a member carries can be sorted into five basic types, tension, compression, bending, torsion, and shear, and telling them apart is what lets you predict how and where a part will actually fail.
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