The Poynting effect

Giuseppe Zurlo; James Blackwell; Niall Colgan; Michel Destrade

doi:10.1119/10.0001997

The Poynting effect

Giuseppe Zurlo, James Blackwell, Niall Colgan, Michel Destrade

Department of Civil Engineering and Trades

University of Galway

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Abstract

Intuition suggests that twisting a cylinder will shorten it, but here it is shown that for a cylinder of an incompressible material, like rubber, twisting will always produce elongation.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1036-1040
Number of pages	5
Journal	American Journal of Physics
Volume	88
Issue number	12
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1119/10.0001997
Publication status	Published - 1 Dec 2020

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