How Cutting Works
Channel: TheHelleri
Date: 2014-12-15

A short overview of how things like knives make a cut. Here are some resources for further reading and a more in depth look on the subject:

*Online Resources:*

Slicing Softly with Shear (School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, HU);
http://physics.aps.org/featured-article-pdf/10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.244301

Yield and Plastic Flow (Department of Materials Science and Engineering.MIT);
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/materials-science-and-engineering/3-11-mechanics-of-materials-fall-1999/modules/yield.pdf

The Science and Engineering of Cutting (Tony Atkins;
http://books.google.com/books/about/The_science_and_engineering_of_cutting.html?hl=sl&id=sl3imKj8258C

*Offline Resource:*
A Book Titled "Strength of Materials". Authored by Mansfield Merriman (International Association for Testing Materials). Published by the Scientific Press, Robert Drummand And Company - New York/  John Wiley & Sons - New York/ Chapman and Hall limited - London. 5th edition (enlarged) 1910.  available in various editions and republishings (even modern) from Abe Books: http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?an=Mansfield+Merriman&sts=t&tn=strength+of+materials