Heriot-Watt Mathematics Report Series
HWM02-31, 23 Sep 2002
Statistical mechanics of nonlinear elasticity
O Penrose
Abstract
A method is suggested for defining a deformation-dependent
free energy in microscopic terms for a deformed elastic solid
and applied to a simple microscopic model of such a solid.
Some of the convexity and continuity properties of this
free energy function are derived.
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