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  1. In the #2D #elasticity, #equilibrium of #stresses can be represented on an infinitesimal rectangular element with components of both #DirectStress and #ShearStress generally acting on all four edges. If you were to rotate the rectangle, the stresses change in a precisely orchestrated fashion. In the orientation where the shear stress components vanish, we get what are called #PrincipalStresses and they and their directions can be ascertained precisely through #eigenvalue analysis... 1/2