📐 Understanding Poisson's Ratio in FEM
Poisson's ratio reflects how a material's transverse contraction responds to its elongation. Higher ratios mean more transverse contraction for a given stretch, a vital factor in structural analysis.
👇 Check out the impact of Poisson's ratio on the deformation of a tensioned tubular shell element, modeled in RFEM by Dlubal Software, to see this concept in action!