Elasticity/Antiplane shear

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Antiplane shear (or antiplane strain) is the state of strain that is obtained when the displacement field is of the form

There is only an out of plane displacement.

Since the strains are given by

we have

Therefore, for antiplane shear, the only nonzero strains are the out-of-plane shear strains