Continuum mechanics is a branch of mechanics that deals with the deformation of and transmission of forces through materials modeled as a continuous medium...

study of the effect of forces on fluid motion.: 3  It is a branch of continuum mechanics, a subject which models matter without using the information that...

with respect to second-order tensors are of considerable use in continuum mechanics. These derivatives are used in the theories of nonlinear elasticity...

In continuum mechanics, elastic shakedown behavior is one in which plastic deformation takes place during running in, while due to residual stresses or...

Solid mechanics (also known as mechanics of solids) is the branch of continuum mechanics that studies the behavior of solid materials, especially their...

In physics and continuum mechanics, deformation is the change in the shape or size of an object. It has dimension of length with SI unit of metre (m)...

In continuum mechanics, stress is a physical quantity that describes forces present during deformation. For example, an object being pulled apart, such...

In mechanics, strain is defined as relative deformation, compared to a reference position configuration. Different equivalent choices may be made for...

part on earlier 19th-century ideas. The development in the modern continuum mechanics, particularly in the areas of elasticity, plasticity, fluid dynamics...

1952) was a Hungarian mathematician and physicist who specialized in continuum mechanics. He was known for using what he called the inverse or semi-inverse...

same result. George Gabriel Stokes re-derived them in 1845 using continuum mechanics. Poisson, Augustin-Louis Cauchy, and Sophie Germain were the main...

In continuum mechanics, the material derivative describes the time rate of change of some physical quantity (like heat or momentum) of a material element...

biomaterials and biofluids is usually carried forth with the concepts of continuum mechanics. This assumption breaks down when the length scales of interest approach...

classical mechanics exposed to establishing of simpler approximations. Some examples of governing differential equations in classical continuum mechanics are...

both experimental and theoretical understanding of fluid mechanics and continuum mechanics. This timeline includes developments in: Theoretical models...

classical mechanics, such as: statics, dynamics, kinematics, continuum mechanics (which includes fluid mechanics), statistical mechanics, etc. Mechanics: A branch...

In continuum mechanics, the strain-rate tensor or rate-of-strain tensor is a physical quantity that describes the rate of change of the strain (i.e.,...

tensor-valued constitutive equations, which are common in the field of continuum mechanics. For non-Newtonian fluid's viscosity, there are pseudoplastic, plastic...

In continuum mechanics and thermodynamics, a control volume (CV) is a mathematical abstraction employed in the process of creating mathematical models...

In continuum mechanics, an ensemble is an imaginary collection of notionally identical experiments. Each member of the ensemble will have nominally identical...

{n} =Df(\mathbf {x} )[\mathbf {n} ].} Several important results in continuum mechanics require the derivatives of vectors with respect to vectors and of...

friction factor, a dimensionless number used as a local parameter in continuum mechanics coefficient of friction This disambiguation page lists articles associated...

In continuum mechanics, the finite strain theory—also called large strain theory, or large deformation theory—deals with deformations in which strains...

In continuum mechanics, the maximum distortion energy criterion (also von Mises yield criterion) states that yielding of a ductile material begins when...

application: Celestial mechanics, relating to stars, planets and other celestial bodies Continuum mechanics, for materials modelled as a continuum, e.g., solids...

required to describe the system are identified using principles from continuum mechanics. Dimensional analysis is used to express the system with as few independent...

Course in Continuum Mechanics (2nd ed.). Prentice-Hall, Inc. ISBN 978-0-13-318311-5. Hartsuijker, C.; Welleman, J. W. (2001). Engineering Mechanics. Volume...

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In continuum mechanics, vorticity is a pseudovector (or axial vector) field that describes the local spinning motion of a continuum near some point (the...

In continuum mechanics, the Cauchy stress tensor (symbol σ {\displaystyle {\boldsymbol {\sigma }}} , named after Augustin-Louis Cauchy), also called true...