= Virial stress
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Virial stress is a concept used in statistical mechanics and continuum mechanics to describe the internal forces in a material or system at a microscopic level. It provides a way to calculate the stress associated with the arrangement and interaction of particles within a material, taking into account both the kinetic and potential energies of those particles. In a more formal sense, the virial stress is derived from the virial theorem, which relates the average total kinetic energy of a system of particles to their potential energy.
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