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On some conservation laws in transient elastodynamics

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Some new conservation laws or path-independent integrals for transient elastodynamics are presented. Their applications in transient elastodynamic crack analysis are discussed.

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    Present address: Department of Engineering Mechanics, Tongji University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China

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    Zhang, C. On some conservation laws in transient elastodynamics. Acta Mechanica 83, 187–193 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01172980

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