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SUMMARY:Residually Stressed Elastic Solids - Artur Gower (NUI Galway)
DTSTART:20140115T160000Z
DTEND:20140115T170000Z
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CONTACT:Parousia Rockstroh
DESCRIPTION:Most of elasticity has been built on the assumption that when 
 you remove all load off a solid (free boundary conditions)\, it will relax
  to a "natural" configuration\, where the stress throughout the body will 
 disappear. Using this we can stipulate the potential energy as a function 
 of the stretch\, which works much like in a 3D spring\; the more you stret
 ch it the higher potential energy.\n\nSadly\, experiments have shown that 
 biological materials care not for this assumption: they are in a constant 
 state of stress\, even when removing all external load the solid retains a
  residual stress in their interior. How then do we design a coherent poten
 tial energy function?
LOCATION:MR14\, Centre for Mathematical Sciences
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