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The concept of strain is applicable to any material. The material may flow like water or be as rigid as iron. In this text we shall be concerned with structural materials which are able to sustain or support large loads. The material may take many geometrical forms: it might, for example, be in the form of a reinforced concrete girder used in the construction industry. It may be formed with great precision as in an engine block which is able to sustain extremely large pressure loads resulting from the controlled explosion of petrol with air. More mundanely it may simply be a large mass of concrete used as a stable ‘bed’ for a sensitive optical experiment.
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Ward, J.P. (1992). The Analysis of Strain. In: Solid Mechanics. Solid Mechanics and Its Applications, vol 15. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8026-7_4
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