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Toupin's version of the Saint-Venant's principle in linear elasticity is generalized to the case of linear elastic porous materials. That is, it is shown that, for a straight prismatic bar made of a linear elastic material with voids and loaded by a self-equilibrated system of forces at one end only, the internal energy stored in the portion of the bar which is beyond a distance s from the loaded end decreases exponentially with the distance s.
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Batra, R.C., Yang, J.S. Saint-Venant's principle for linear elastic porous materials. J Elasticity 39, 265–271 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00041841
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00041841