compression
Application of inward ("pushing") forces to a material or structure
Also known as physical compression · squeeze · squeezing · mechanical compression · compressive stress
- Instance of
- Subclass of
Overview
All data
32 statements · 19% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations
- Opposite of
- mechanical tension criterion used: topological direction
- ISQ dimension
\mathsf{L} \mathsf{M} \mathsf{T}^{-2}
- Uses
- pressure
- concrete object
- manipulator nature of statement: often
- Different from
- pushing criterion used: result
- pressing criterion used: isotropy
- tensile stress
On other databases
15 identifiers linking compression across the web's reference databases
- Allotrope Foundation Ontology process ID0002843
- Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID300220420
- Concepticon concept set ID1414
- Encyclopædia Britannica Online IDscience/compression
- Freebase ID/m/02707n
- GND ID4474323-3
- Great Norwegian Encyclopedia IDkompresjon
- Joconde object type IDT505-908
- KBpedia IDCompression-Physics
- MetaSat IDcompression
- Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued)180016635
- OpenAlex IDC180016635
- Store medisinske leksikon IDkompresjon
- Wolfram Language quantity IDCompression
- YSO ID18678
