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Author: Taylor Emma

A senior editor for The Mars that left the company to join the team of SenseCentral as a news editor and content creator. An artist by nature who enjoys video games, guitars, action figures, cooking, painting, drawing and good music.

Engineering Mechanics

Kinetics: Forces and Stresses

In the previous chapter, the geometrical description of deformation and motion of a continuum have been addressed. Both…

February 5, 2022 · Taylor Emma
Engineering Mechanics

Change of Reference Frame

If two observers describe their spaces by position vectors with respect to their individual points of reference, then

February 5, 2022 · Taylor Emma
Engineering Mechanics

Strain tensors

As the deformation gradient may include (rigid) rotations, it cannot be used to describe the deformation of a…

February 5, 2022 · Taylor Emma
Engineering Mechanics

Deformation

February 5, 2022 · Taylor Emma
Engineering Mechanics

Kinematics: Motion and Deformation

The following chapter provides an introduction into the description of finite (large) deformations and hence abandons the common…

February 5, 2022 · Taylor Emma
Engineering Mechanics

Continuum Hypothesis

Introduction Continuum mechanics is concerned with motion and deformation of material objects, called bodies, under the action of…

February 5, 2022 · Taylor Emma
Engineering Mechanics

Characterisation of Materials

Materials testing has a long tradition and is based on the desire of scientists to measure the mechanical…

February 5, 2022 · Taylor Emma