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Continuum Mechanics, part 1
cm_part1 Continuum Mechanics, part 1 Background, notation, tensors
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The Concept of Continuum
The molecular nature of the structure of matter is well established. In many cases, however, the individual molecule is of no concern. Observed macroscopic behavior is based on assumption that the material is continuously distributed throughout its volume and completely fills the space. The continuum concept of matter is the fundamen- tal postulate of continuum mechanics. Adoption of continuum concept means that field quantities as stress and displacements are expressed as piecewise continuous functions of space coordinates and time.
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Tensors, vectors, scalars
General tensors .. transformation in curvilinear systems Cartesian tensors .. transformation in Cartesian systems Tensors are classified by the rank or order according to the particular form of the transformation law they obey. In a three-dimensional space (n = 3) the number of components of a tensor is nN, where N is the rank (order) of that tensor. Cm0007a
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Summation rule When an index appears twice in a term, that index is understood to take on all values of its range, and the resulting terms summed. So the repeated indices are often referred to as dummy indices, since their replacement by any other letter, not appearing as a free index, does not change the meaning of the term in which they occur.
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Vectors will be denoted in a following way Symbolic or Gibbs notation
Indicial notation; a component or all of them Matrix algebra notation Note Tensor indicial notation does not distinguish between row and column vectors cm0011b
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Inverse transformation
Combining forward and inverse transformations for an arbitrary vector cm0012b
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The coefficient gives the symbol or variable which is equal either to one or to zero according to whether the values i and k are the same or different. This may be simply expressed by i.e. by Kronecker delta or unit matrix
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Second order tensor transformation
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