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= Hypoelastic material
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Hypoelastic materials are a type of material model used in continuum mechanics to describe the behavior of materials that exhibit a nonlinear elastic response. The term "hypoelastic" refers to materials that do not have a predefined elastic potential energy function and do not necessarily exhibit a linear relationship between stress and strain.