principal stress
Mechanics and Geology
noun
Each of the three purely tensile or compressive stresses acting in mutually perpendicular directions into which any combination of stresses acting at a point can be resolved.
Origin
Mid 19th century; earliest use found in Macquorn Rankine (1820–1872), civil engineer and physicist.
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