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In this initial chapter, we introduce various fundamentals: description of deformation, definition and interpretation of the strain and stress tensors, balance laws, and general restrictions on constitutive equations. These provide the foundation for later developments.
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Amendola, G., Fabrizio, M., Golden, J.M. (2012). Introduction to Continuum Mechanics. In: Thermodynamics of Materials with Memory. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-1692-0_1
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