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In the previous chapter our investigations were based on a comparison between the current configuration and the reference configuration, being concerned essentially with the geometrical point of view, without considering the intermediate states of the system. As stated at the time, the argument t served merely as a parameter to index the current configuration.
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Salençon, J. (2001). Kinematics. In: Handbook of Continuum Mechanics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-56542-7_3
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