mechanical stress

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Also known as stress, stress, mechanical

physical quantity that expresses internal forces in a continuous material

AI overview

Mechanical stress is the internal force that builds up within a material when it's pushed, pulled, or compressed. It matters because understanding how much stress a material can handle helps engineers design safe structures and products that won't break or fail under pressure.

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Within Vinony's link graph, mechanical stress is referenced by 1,094 other articles, and connects out to International System of Units, momentum and deformation.

It sits within the topics Solid mechanics and Tensors.

Its subject is documented across 65 Wikipedia language editions.

Research

130,622 papers

Mechanical stress induced mitochondrial dysfunction in cardiovascular diseases: Novel mechanisms and therapeutic targets.ReviewBiomedicine & pharmacotherapy = Biomedecine & pharmacotherapie · 2024Ren H, Hu W, Jiang T et al.DOI: 10.1016/j.biopha.2024.116545
Mechanical stress and mechanosensitive protein in skin tumors.ReviewBiochimica et biophysica acta. Reviews on cancer · 2025Li B, Zhao S, Zhang L et al.DOI: 10.1016/j.bbcan.2025.189419
Mechanical stress can regulate temporomandibular joint cavitation via signalling pathways.ReviewDevelopmental biology · 2024She Y, Ren R, Jiang NDOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2023.12.006
Mechanical stress-induced autophagic response: A cancer-enabling characteristic?ReviewSeminars in cancer biology · 2020Das J, Chakraborty S, Maiti TKDOI: 10.1016/j.semcancer.2019.05.017
Mechanical stress acclimation in plants: Linking hormones and somatic memory to thigmomorphogenesis.ReviewPlant, cell & environment · 2022Brenya E, Pervin M, Chen ZH et al.DOI: 10.1111/pce.14252
Mechanical stress overload promotes NF-κB/NLRP3-mediated osteoarthritis synovitis and fibrosis through Piezo1.Cellular signalling · 2025Yu L, Tian D, Su Z et al.DOI: 10.1016/j.cellsig.2025.111786
Mechanical Stress and Protective Mechanisms in Podocytes: Insights into Hypertensive Nephropathy.ReviewInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2025Du SJ, Huang W, Hao Y et al.DOI: 10.3390/ijms26199316
Mechanical stress regulates the mechanotransduction and metabolism of cardiac fibroblasts in fibrotic cardiac diseases.ReviewEuropean journal of cell biology · 2023Tian G, Ren TDOI: 10.1016/j.ejcb.2023.151288

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