The stress is given by

where
is the force,
is the area, and
is the stress tensor, given by
![{\displaystyle \sigma _{ij}\equiv \left[{\begin{matrix}\sigma _{x}&\tau _{xy}&\tau _{xz}\\\tau _{yx}&\sigma _{y}&\tau _{yz}\\\tau _{zx}&\tau _{zy}&\sigma _{z}\\\end{matrix}}\right]}](https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/5b170735cb100939c7da5c30aa215add87dcf051)
where where
,
, and
are normal stresses, and
,
,
,
,
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are shear stresess.