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Cosserat-Elastic Bodies

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This chapter explores certain classes of materials. It begins with linear elastic bodies, laying down the basic concepts for linear isotropic elasticity. Examples are following, including bending of a beam, annular shear and torsion of a sphere of Cosserat elastic material.

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Vardoulakis, I. (2019). Cosserat-Elastic Bodies. In: Cosserat Continuum Mechanics . Lecture Notes in Applied and Computational Mechanics, vol 87. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95156-0_7

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