Abstract
The simple shear of a rectangular block is an example of an important class of universal deformations that can be achieved by any homogeneous isotropic elastic body subject to surface tractions alone. Such universal deformations play an important role in experimental studies of materials. The analysis of simple shear for the isotropic elastic material is due mainly to Rivlin (1948a); our presentation follows Truesdeell & Noll (1965).
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Truesdell (1973)
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Smith, D.R. (1993). Shear of an Isotropic Elastic Rectangular Block. In: An Introduction to Continuum Mechanics — after Truesdell and Noll . Solid Mechanics and Its Applications, vol 22. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-0713-8_12
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