Events and Invitations
Events
Seminar “The initial configuration is a new (or well–forgotten old) variable in mechanics; its application in problems of thermoelasticity, masselasticity, plasticity and others”
The initial (or more strictly unloaded) configuration of a deformable body is an equal independent variable in problems of mechanics, along with such variables as the radius vector and velocity of a material point, temperature or concentration. The initial configuration remains unchanged under elastic deformation of the medium but begins to change and play a decisive role in problems of thermoelasticity or masselasticity.