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Stress & Strain
GATE 2017
Easy
The Poisson's ratio for a perfectly incompressible linear elastic material is
- A1
- 0.5
- C0
- Dinfinity
Explanation
A perfectly incompressible material undergoes no volume change, which for isotropic linear elasticity requires Poisson's ratio ν = 0.5.
Source: GATE ME 2017 Session 1 (ME-1) (2017)
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