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By a continuous medium we mean a material body which fills a certain spatial domain in such a way that there is a mass point of the medium in each geometric point of the domain. But, since the substance possesses a granular structure, this definition has to be more accurate.
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Chaichian, M., Merches, I., Tureanu, A. (2012). Mechanics of Continuous Deformable Media. In: Mechanics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-17234-2_6
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