An elastic solid is a deformable continuum that recovers its original configuration when forces causing deformation are removed. For linear elastic behaviour and small deformations, a linear relation between stresses, S, and strains, E, is postulated, which writes
An elastic solid is a deformable continuum that recovers its original configuration when forces causing deformation are removed. For linear elastic behaviour and small deformations, a linear relation between stresses, S, and strains, E, is postulated, which writes
