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External forces acting on a non-rigid body cause changes in its shape and volume. These geometric changes are described using the strain tensor.
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Puzrin, A.M. (2012). Strains. In: Constitutive Modelling in Geomechanics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27395-7_4
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