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Past exam of the elasticity and plasticity course of the University of Oxford 2011 1 c Solution by
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In the current configuration, balance of linear momentum is the Cauchy momentum equationHere is the Cauchy stress tensor, is current mass density, is body force per unit mass, and is the velocity of the material particle currently at . The expression in parentheses is the material acceleration. The divergence is taken in current spatial coordinates, with .
Equivalently the right side is evaluated at the particle, because this is the same material acceleration in Lagrangian coordinates. For the subsequent static inflation with negligible body force, the equation reduces to .
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