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Continuum mechanics is concerned with the global behaviour of substances under external loads. Here we restrict ourselves mainly to solids, although some examples later cover a wider class of substances. The external loads act either through the surface of a body (contact loads) or by action at a distance (gravitation, for example).
We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances. Rule of Parcimony, I.Newton
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Engelbrecht, J. (1997). Essential continuum mechanics. In: Nonlinear Wave Dynamics. Kluwer Texts in the Mathematical Sciences, vol 17. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8891-1_2
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