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The word strain is used about local deformation in a material, i.e. deformation in the neighbourhood of a particle. Strain represents changes of the lengths of material line elements, the angles between material line elements, and the volumes of material volume elements.
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Irgens, F. (2019). Deformation Analysis. In: Tensor Analysis. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03412-2_4
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