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Elastic Materials with Two Stress-Free Configurations

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It is shown that, if an elastic material exhibits two stress-free configurations, it is dynamically unstable in a definite sense.

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  1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 02139, U.S.A

    Rohan Abeyaratne

  2. Division of Engineering and Applied Science, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, 91125, U.S.A.

    James K. Knowles

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Abeyaratne, R., Knowles, J.K. Elastic Materials with Two Stress-Free Configurations. Journal of Elasticity 67, 61–69 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1022545224008

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