noun
normal stress
Engineering term for the component of stress perpendicular to a given plane.
垂直応力は、材料の断面に垂直に作用する応力成分です。
Normal stress is the stress component acting perpendicular to the cross-section of a material.
Shear stress acts parallel to the surface, while normal stress acts perpendicular.
Compound of 垂直 (vertical, perpendicular) and 応力 (stress, internal force).