nLab strain tensor

In continuum mechanics / solid state physics

In elasticity theory (in the context of continuum mechanics/solid state physics) given stress tensor expressing forces acting inside a solid body, then the corresponding strain tensor expresses the deformation of the body in reaction to these forces.

Related concepts

• stress-energy tensor

References

• Lev Landau, Evgeny Lifshitz, I.§1 of Theory of Elasticity, part VII of Course of Theoretical Physics, 1959, 1970