Nonnegative isotropic elastic strain energy

ID: nonnegative-isotropic-elastic-strain-energy

In three-dimensional isotropic linear elasticity, decompose the symmetric strain as with and . The stored energy is . Its nonnegativity for every strain is equivalent to the displayed inequalities: the traceless and purely volumetric test strains prove necessity, and the sum of squares proves sufficiency.

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