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CONTINUUM MECHANICS for ENGINEERS

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A motion of body B is a continuous time sequence of displacements that<br />

carries the set of particles X into various configurations in a stationary space.<br />

Such a motion may be expressed by the equation<br />

x = κ(X,t) (4.1-3)<br />

which gives the position x <strong>for</strong> each particle X <strong>for</strong> all times t, where t ranges<br />

from – ∞ to + ∞. As with configuration mappings, we assume the motion<br />

function in Eq 4.1-3 is uniquely invertible and differentiable, so that we may<br />

write the inverse<br />

X = κ –1 (x,t) (4.1-4)<br />

which identifies the particle X located at position x at time t.<br />

We give special meaning to certain configurations of the body. In particular,<br />

we single out a reference configuration from which all displacements are reckoned.<br />

For the purpose it serves, the reference configuration need not be one<br />

the body ever actually occupies. Often, however, the initial configuration, that<br />

is, the one which the body occupies at time t = 0, is chosen as the reference<br />

configuration, and the ensuing de<strong>for</strong>mations and motions related to it. The<br />

current configuration is that one which the body occupies at the current time t.<br />

In developing the concepts of strain, we confine attention to two specific<br />

configurations without any regard <strong>for</strong> the sequence by which the second<br />

configuration is reached from the first. It is customary to call the first (reference)<br />

state the unde<strong>for</strong>med configuration, and the second state the de<strong>for</strong>med<br />

configuration. Additionally, time is not a factor in deriving the various strain<br />

tensors, so that both configurations are considered independent of time.<br />

In fluid mechanics, the idea of specific configurations has very little meaning<br />

since fluids do not possess a natural geometry, and because of this it is<br />

the velocity field of a fluid that assumes the fundamental kinematic role.<br />

4.2 Material and Spatial Coordinates<br />

Consider now the reference configuration prescribed by some mapping function<br />

Φ such that the position vector X of particle X relative to the axes<br />

OX 1X 2X 3 of Figure 4.1 is given by<br />

X = Φ(X) (4.2-1)<br />

In this case we may express X in terms of the base vectors shown in the<br />

figure by the equation<br />

X = XAIˆ A<br />

(4.2-2)

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