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(Top) Volume under compression, (centre) section of wire under tension, (bottom) metal tube under torsion stress-strain curves Figure 5: (A) Extensional strain and (B) simple shear strain, where the element drawn with dashed lines represents the reference configuration, and the element drawn with solid lines represents the deformed configuration. Figure 6: Relations of strains to gradients of displacement (see text).
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Also Known As internal deformation

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(Top) Volume under compression, (centre) section of wire under tension, (bottom) metal tube under torsion
stress-strain curves
Figure 5: (A) Extensional strain and (B) simple shear strain, where the element drawn with dashed lines represents the reference configuration, and the element drawn with solid lines represents the deformed configuration.
Figure 6: Relations of strains to gradients of displacement (see text).
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