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Q: For thermal expansion, does the expansion/contraction take place along all directions uniformly, assuming the material is isotropic and homogeneous? I've had some problems in materials where a change in temperature causes axial changes in length and a different problem where it was diametric changes in length on a shrink lock. It was the same equation with length replaced by diameter, so I thought this must be true in any direction.