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= Lamé's stress ellipsoid
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Lamé's stress ellipsoid is a conceptual representation used in the field of continuum mechanics to visualize the state of stress at a specific point within a material body. It is named after the French engineer and mathematician Gabriel Lamé. The stress ellipsoid provides a way to understand the distribution of normal and shear stresses acting on a point in three-dimensional space.