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Discuss stress and strain of materials in terms of Hooke's law. Please be detailed.
the relevant state of the medium around a point must be
represented by two second-order tensors, the strain tensor
(in lieu of the displacement
) and the stress tensor
(replacing the restoring force
).The analogous of Hooke's spring law for
continuous media is then
where is a fourth-order tensor (that is, a linear
map between second-order tensors) usually called the stiffness
tensor or elasticity tensor. One may also write it as
Hooke's law only holds for some materials under certain loading conditions. Steel exhibits linear-elastic behavior in most engineering applications; Hooke's law is valid for it throughout its elastic range