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Objectives: In Chapter 1 the deformation of a bar has been characterized by the strain and the displacement. We will now generalize these kinematic quantities to the plane and the spatial cases. For this purpose, we introduce the displacement vector and the strain tensor, the latter describing length and angle changes.
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Gross, D., Hauger, W., Schröder, J., Wall, W.A., Bonet, J. (2018). Strain, Hooke’s Law. In: Engineering Mechanics 2. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-56272-7_3
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