{"id":11252,"date":"2022-11-11T18:41:36","date_gmt":"2022-11-11T23:41:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/freeform\/me323\/?page_id=11252"},"modified":"2025-07-23T15:50:01","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T19:50:01","slug":"the-mohr-explainer","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/freeform\/me323\/animations-and-demonstrations\/the-mohr-explainer\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mohr Explainer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A rotation of the stress element through an angle of \u03b8 corresponds to a point on Mohr\u2019s circle located at an angle of 2\u03b8 in Mohr\u2019s plane from the <em>x<\/em>-axis. Carefully study the three components of stress as we move CCW around Mohr&#8217;s circle and the corresponding rotation of the stress element. Pay particular attention to the signs and the magnitudes of these components &#8211; do these agree with your understanding of stress transformations and Mohr&#8217;s circle?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"border: 1px solid #000000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/freeform\/me323\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/07\/mohr_demo_faster.gif\" width=\"663\" height=\"509\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\"><em><strong>Summary<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"border: 1px solid #000000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/freeform\/me323\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/Screen-Shot-2022-11-12-at-4.09.06-AM.jpg\" width=\"518\" height=\"212\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\"><em><strong>Summary<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"border: 1px solid #000000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/freeform\/me323\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/07\/draw_mohr-2.gif\" width=\"643\" height=\"483\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A rotation of the stress element through an angle of \u03b8 corresponds to a point on Mohr\u2019s circle located at an angle of 2\u03b8 in Mohr\u2019s plane from the x-axis. Carefully study the three components of stress as we move CCW around Mohr&#8217;s circle and the corresponding rotation of the stress element. Pay particular attention &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/freeform\/me323\/animations-and-demonstrations\/the-mohr-explainer\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Mohr Explainer<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"parent":5074,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-11252","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/freeform\/me323\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/freeform\/me323\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/freeform\/me323\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/freeform\/me323\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/freeform\/me323\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11252"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/freeform\/me323\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16079,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/freeform\/me323\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11252\/revisions\/16079"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/freeform\/me323\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/freeform\/me323\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}