Abstract
Consider the rotation of a rigid body through an angle θ about a unit vector a at the origin of coordinates O (Figure 3.1). Any point M of the solid is brought to M’;. In dropping a perpendicular from M or M’ to a, the same point H is reached.
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Lliboutry, L.A. (1987). Rotation and strain. Invariants of stress and of strain rates. In: Very Slow Flows of Solids. Mechanics of Fluids and Transport Processes, vol 7. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3563-1_3
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