Shear Strength
"Shear Strength" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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The internal resistance of a material to moving some parts of it parallel to a fixed plane, in contrast to stretching (TENSILE STRENGTH) or compression (COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH). Ionic crystals are brittle because, when subjected to shear, ions of the same charge are brought next to each other, which causes repulsion.
| Descriptor ID |
D033081
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| MeSH Number(s) |
G01.374.820
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