An aluminium alloy has Young's modulus and Poisson's ratio

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Bending, Ringing, Breaking and Flowing, Ch Hooke's law for an isotropic solid

Problem

An aluminium alloy has Young's modulus

E = 70\,\mathrm{GPa}

and Poisson's ratio

\nu = 0.33

. Using the conversion relations between the Lamé constants and

(E,\nu)

, find the shear modulus

G

, the first Lamé constant

\lambda

and the bulk modulus

K

of this alloy.

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