Extend definition to material bodies: total work is the addition of the work done on all particles by forces distributed over the volume W by forces distributed over the surface t·udS
The following stress-strain curves were obtained for dif- ferent materials subjecting the specimen to the loading path(a, b, c, d ). Which one(s) of them correspond to elas- tic material(s)
By looking at the potential energy of an element, what can you conclude about the properties required for the basis functions of an euler -bernoulli beam element? They should be differentiable twice