simple shear


simple shear

[′sim·pəl ′shir] (geophysics) Strain caused by differential movements on one set of parallel planes which results in internal rotation of fabric elements. (mathematics) A transformation that corresponds to a shearing motion in which a coordinate axis in the plane or a coordinate plane in space does not move, having the form x ′ = x, y ′ = ax + y, z ′ = z, where a is a constant, for a suitable choice of axes.