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Why is similarity an interesting issue in mechanics and, in particular, in soil and rock mechanics? The reason is that similarity introduces equivalence classes, i.e. the considered items are grouped into classes in such a way that if item A and item B belong to the same class, then they are in a certain sense equivalent, i.e. it is sufficient to consider only item A. This item is representative of all other items of the same class. This brings in an enormous simplification. Virtually, recognition (and, possibly, also cognition) is nothing but detecting similarities.
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Kolymbas, D. (2003). Similarity in soil and rock mechanics. In: Kolymbas, D. (eds) Advanced Mathematical and Computational Geomechanics. Lecture Notes in Applied and Computational Mechanics, vol 13. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-45079-5_6
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